Jasmine Sun
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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I've heard from people managing compute at some of the other AI labs that they are thinking of making the same decision.
One thing that surprised me is...
All of the pro-data center, pro-build people who I spoke to, whether workers or AI developers, they all regret the NDAs.
They all think that they made the situation much worse.
They do require some of it, obviously, primarily for cooling the data centers because these chips and servers run really hot and they need AC.
The thing that's gone a bit wrong in the water debate, I think, is that today's new data centers are almost all closed loop systems, closed loop in the same way that air conditioning is closed loop, which means they're recycling the water within the system and they use a fraction of the water that
you know, golf courses use.
And in fact, in places like Janesville, Wisconsin, we would often see a literal golf course right next to the data center site.
But they do use some and it has sort of become a very sticky icon of like these things, resource consumption.
A lot of folks I talk to in Wisconsin and Michigan, they would say things like, you know, they're building right by the Great Lakes.
Why would they do that if they weren't trying to drain the lakes?
Why would they do that if they didn't need all this fresh water?
The electricity consumption issue is real.
So data centers do in fact use an incredible amount of electricity.
These chips and these servers that are processing gigantic mathematical calculations to make AI work require tons of energy.
All these chips and clusters are talking to each other.
You need the interconnections to be really fast in order to get like a chat GPT answer really quickly with low latency easily.
You need these super fast connections.
All of that's powered by electricity.
So we are talking about a really, really significant amount of new electricity that is going to require new generators, new power plants.
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