Elon Musk: “The US average electricity usage, last time I checked was…”

“So let's say you wanted to do 200 or 300 gigawatts per year of AI compute. It's very difficult to do that on earth. So The US average electricity usage, last time I checked was around 460 gigawatts per year average usage. So something like, say if you're doing 300 gigawatts a year, that would be like 2/3 of US electricity production per year. There's no way you're building power plants at that level.” (23:03–23:12)

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