Karen Hao

So let's just talk about opening a facility in Texas.

That one would be the size of Central Park, and it would run a million computer chips, and it would require the power of more than 20% of New York City.

No, what I was saying is that when we talk about what these executives predict about the future, we need to understand that they are ultimately trying to influence the public in a way that allows them to continue maintaining control over the technology.

Well, I...

I don't want to comment specifically on this chart, but we've already seen in job reports that there is a restructuring of the economy happening right now.

But going back to the data science, so this supercomputer facility, it's a meta supercomputer facility, is being built in Louisiana.

And it would be four times the size of the Abilene, Texas one.

and use half of the average power demand of New York City.

So it's one-fifth the size of Manhattan.

This makes it seem like almost all of Manhattan, but it would be one-fifth the size of Manhattan.

When these facilities go into these communities, what happens?

Power utility increases.

Grid reliability decreases.

The facilities also need...

fresh water to generate the power for powering them as well as fresh water to cool.

And there've been lots of documented stories of communities that are already really constrained in their fresh water resource.

They're under a drought when a facility comes in.

And then there are people, the community is actually like competing with this facility for fresh water.

I talk about one of those communities in my book.

And also, sometimes these facilities, instead of connecting to the grid, they instead, a power plant pops up next to it.