Allie Beth Stuckey

And then they're using it.

Computing power is also required to help them to quickly, in a few seconds, go through essentially the entire internet to come up with the answer to the question.

And that is just a huge amount of computing that has to happen.

Was it dots and zeros or dashes and zeros is really what's behind all the code.

And they convert all those into what is logical things that you and I would understand.

And we're going to continue to need these data centers unless there is a breakthrough in computing that allows them not to be needed anymore.

Most communities are raising concerns again, as I said, about energy, water, environmental, and they are really huge facilities.

But they were also used before AI, but AI has just expanded the need for them.

It's a much, much heavier demand.

And you and I use it every week.

You use AI whether you know it or not.

When you ask a question of your computer or when you're looking for something, it's using AI to help find that answer as quickly as possible for you.

Right now, there are 3,000 data centers and there's 1,500 that are already in development across the country.

That's a lot.

If you think about that, that's

you know, 50 states, that's, what is that?

Yeah, 60 per state, something like that.

And now another 45, so it's up to like 70 per state, even more than probably 80 per state.

So that's a lot, you know, that's a lot.

And some big states like Texas probably has more than others.