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Energy beat: AI Requires an Explosion in Power

Every tech report acknowledges “that deploying AI at scale will lead to massive increases in electricity demand,” since “the digital economy runs on hardware, and hardware consumes a lot of energy,” notes City Journal’s Mark P. Mills . “A single large AI data center can use as much electricity as 2 million households.” Offsetting the costs of this soaring demand will “exponential” gains in “energy-efficiency.” Then again, AI will boost productivity, adding perhaps “a cumulative $10 trillion above projections to U.S. GDP over the coming decade,” and so sprak further “spur growth in energy demand.” Hence the tech community’s demand for an “all options on the table” energy plan, ending “the past decade’s monomaniacal obsession with wind and so