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Elon Musk: “If you say a terawatt, that would be twice as much…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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To be clear, you're talking like terawatts. Yeah. Well, all of the United States currently uses only half a terawatt per hour on average. Yeah. So If you say a terawatt, that would be twice as much electricity as the United States currently consumes. So that's quite a lot. And can you imagine building that many data centers, that many power plants? (05:00–05:06)

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