Ron DeSantis: “Typical hyperscale data centers use as much power as a city…”

“So to give you a point of reference on this, the hyperscale data center that's being proposed by Meta in Louisiana is as big as Manhattan. And Typical hyperscale data centers use as much power as a city of half a million people. The Meadow one would probably be a lot more than that. So very power intensive. It needs a lot of water to cool the servers down. Now they'll say it's a closed loop.” (07:16–07:23)

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