Earlier this week, OpenAI announced a “strategic partnership” with AI chipmaker Nvidia in which the duo of tech giants will build and deploy upwards of 10 gigawatts of AI data centers.

Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in the project, an enormous project that could end up requiring an astronomical amount of electricity to run.

As Fortune reports, the planned data centers would consume as much as the entire city of New York City — and the Sam Altman-led company isn’t stopping there. Existing projects tied to president Donald Trump’s Stargate initiative could add another seven gigawatts, or roughly as much as San Diego used during last year’s devastating heat wave.

“Ten gigawatts is more than the peak power demand in Switzerland or Portugal,” Cornell University energy-systems engineer

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