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## Segment 2 — futures

## Article 101 — a101

# Eric Yanfei Zhao

## Profile
Eric Yanfei Zhao is a co-author of the Harvard Business Review article *"Your Company Needs an Energy Strategy for AI's Next Phase"* (June 2026), written with [[entity-yinuo-tang]]. The article reframes AI economics as fundamentally industrial and prescribes an energy strategy for non-hyperscaler enterprises.

## Role in the source
Co-author and co-originator of the source's frameworks, concepts, and recommendations. The essay speaks in a single joint voice; all direct quotes are attributed to both authors.

## Attributed contributions to this vault
As co-author, Eric Yanfei Zhao shares credit for the full body of the source's ideas:
- Frameworks: [[framework-great-value-loop-eras]], [[framework-incumbent-energy-playbook]]
- Concepts: [[concept-great-value-loop]], [[concept-ai-industrial-economics]], [[concept-ai-jevons-paradox]], [[concept-intelligence-per-watt]], [[concept-shiftable-vs-latency-sensitive]]
- Quotes: [[quote-new-scarcity]], [[quote-model-is-chips-cooling]], [[quote-profit-pool-migration]], [[quote-energy-not-renegotiated]], [[quote-intelligence-per-watt-metric]]
- Claims: [[claim-ai-bottleneck-electricity]], [[claim-data-center-energy-growth]], [[claim-efficiency-increases-demand]], [[claim-hyperscalers-moving-upstream]], [[claim-incumbents-need-energy-access]]