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Bernie Sanders: “Meta is building a data center in Louisiana, the size of…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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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. One data center, Meta is building a data center in Louisiana, the size of Manhattan, that will use as much electricity as 1,200,000 homes. In community after community, Americans are fighting back against data centers being built by some of the largest and most powerful corporations in the world. They are opposing the destruction of their local environment. (10:08–10:20)

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Asserts that Meta's data center in Louisiana will use as much electricity as 1,200,000 homes.

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