What is the long term impact upon our humanity when our most important relationships are not with other human beings? Further, what impact is AI having on our environment? AI data centers require a massive, huge amount of electricity and water. A relatively small AI data center can consume more electricity than 80,000 homes. A large one, like the 165 billion dollar data center that OpenAI and Oracle are building in Abilene, Texas, will use as much electricity as as 750,000 homes. (09:39–09:53)
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Asserts that small AI data centers consume more electricity than 80,000 homes.
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