Data centers are being built with unprecedented gusto all over the U.S. The reason for this is fairly well known: the AI business requires gargantuan amounts of electricity and computing power. Every time you use an app like DALL E to, say, make one of those dumb AI generated images of Mickey Mouse committing the 9 11 terrorist attacks , youre apparently using as much energy as it takes to charge an iPhone . Now picture how much electricity is being used if millions of Americans do it at the...
