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Doug Burgum: “The tech industry... never used more than 1% of the nation's…”

Featuring: Doug Burgum, Republican | U.S. Secretary of the Interior | National

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on AI energy demands

Published | Video Starts at 04:23

Well, this is the key of why we're driving so hard on the supply side, because demand for electricity is going to go up. And The tech industry... never used more than 1% of the nation's electricity. Now it's gone from 2 to 4 and it could go from 4 to 8% of the nation's electricity very quickly. Because the demands, it's important that we increase the supply. And that's why through the energy emergency that we're working with, we're bringing together for the first time. (04:23–04:37)

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Asserts that the tech industry's electricity usage has increased from 1% to between 2% and 4%, and could soon reach 8%.

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