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Ron DeSantis: “Hyperscale data center typically consumes as much power as a…”

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Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence

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And so the one I know, Meta is going to build one in Louisiana that's going to be about the size of Manhattan. So this is real, significant. Hyperscale data center typically consumes as much power as a city of a half a million people, sometimes even more than that. It gets very hot, so they need a lot of water to be able to cool. So there's all kinds of issues with respect to resources. (25:53–26:04)

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