Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC this week that the chipmaker's AI infrastructure plan with OpenAI is "monumental in size." Their plan is so big that it will push the boundaries of what is possible. The chipmaker and the AI lab are aiming to build at least 10 gigawatts of data centers. This will sap a massive amount of power at a time when the electric grid is already strained . Attempts to deploy more power have faced economic and political constraints that make a fast fix unlikely. Ten gigawatts is roughly equivalent to the annual power consumption of 8 million U.S. households, according to a CNBC analysis of data from the Energy Information Administration. It is about the same amount of power as New York City's baseline peak summer demand in 2024, according to the New York Independent

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