I was reading about how AI data centers will need 165% more power by 2030 – enough to power millions of homes. It made me think about you coming home last night, that familiar tiredness in your eyes after another long day. Not the kind that sleep fixes, but the kind that comes from constantly managing your energy between work demands and being present for our family. It struck me that while the world worries about powering machines, we’re quietly mastering the art of powering what matters most – our home.
The Efficiency Revolution in Our Living Room
They talk about making power delivery smarter for AI, about efficiency rates over 97%. But I watch you in our kitchen, managing the simultaneous equations of helping with homework while prepping dinner, of listening to my day while mentally still solving work problems.
Your efficiency isn’t measured in percentages, but in the way you still make our daughter feel like the most important person in the world, even when you’re beat, in how you find that extra bit of patience at the end of a long day. That’s the real power management system – the one that turns scattered moments into meaningful connections.
Our Family’s Personal Power Grid
Remember last weekend, when we turned off all the screens and just sat on the floor building that ridiculous Lego castle? That was our version of an ‘unstructured power zone’ – where the energy wasn’t going to devices, but to each other.
I saw how your shoulders relaxed, how the tension from the workweek finally melted away. And it’s like we’re upgrading something more important than our Wi-Fi – the feeling of being together with no distractions.
It’s in these small resets that we recharge what really matters.
Building Something That Lasts
They build these massive data centers with redundant systems and backup power, but what we’re building feels even more essential. It’s in the way you still make time for bedtime stories even when you’re answering emails until late.
It’s in how we’ve learned to recognize when the other needs a moment to recharge. This isn’t about creating perfect systems – it’s about creating something resilient enough to handle life’s unexpected power surges. The tough days at work, the sick kids, the moments when we both feel like we’re running on empty.
The Strength I See in You
Watching you manage it all – the career you’ve worked so hard for, the person you’ve become, the partner you are – I’m constantly amazed at the energy you find when there shouldn’t be any left.
What I notice, though, is something different from the way they’re measuring power in data centers. This is a different kind of power that we see in the family. It’s like the way we look into each other’s eyes when dinner’s ready, and the phone’s just sitting in the other room. That’s a power that feels good, like a soft warm breeze that’s unique and just for our family. And that, it’s irreplaceable.
This is the infrastructure that really matters – the kind of comfort that we’re putting together, just by choosing the people we love, like letting our daughter feel like the most important in the world, even when we’re just turning to the last page, one conversation, one shared look, one tired-but-loving moment at a time.
Source: ON Semiconductor To Acquire Aura’s Vcore Power Tech, Yahoo Finance, 2025/09/23