For a better sense of scale: it's about 2% of the average US electricity consump...

tonyhart7 · 2025-09-22T18:25:33 1758565533

Wtf, and this is from 1 company

How many atrophic,xAi,google,Microsoft would be????

having around 5% entire country infrastructure on AI hardware seems excessive no???

Recursing · 2025-09-22T19:05:08 1758567908

No this is from just one partnership, my sense is that OpenAI alone wants more than that.

5% to 10% of US electricity going to AI in 10 years is consistent with the current valuations of AI companies.

bcrosby95 · 2025-09-22T18:40:43 1758566443

Around 5% in the next 5 years for AI alone sounds pretty in-line with projections I've seen.

randomNumber7 · 2025-09-22T19:36:59 1758569819

Isn't this pretty bad for the climate? I don't dare to ask ChatGPT now /S

udkl · 2025-09-22T18:48:51 1758566931

For another sense of scale: A 500MW AI-centric datacenter could cost $10 billion or more to build. So 10GW is $200 billion!