Data centers consumed 4.4% of US power in 2023, could hit 12% by 2028

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Wow, so much energy spent to get worse search results compared to 10 years ago.
- But the data mining is off the charts Bob! More AI! More server things! We must be ready for our robot overlords!
And I'll bet roughly 50->90% of that usage is idiots doing crypto/ai garbage.
I have a solution: spin up a dozen nuclear power plants to fuel AI to solve the problem. If there's not enough nuclear, just burn coal.
- Just spin up a dozen nuclear plants, huh? So who's going to build that, how long is the construction time and who is going to fund that, given that new nuclear is the most expensive power there is?
  
  More questions for AI to answer.
- This but essentially just build SMRs or microreactors into colo plans.
  
  Maybe not so great for the ones that are in the middle of cities, where space is at a premium...but a lot of colo's are in unassuming spaces in suburbs or BFE.
  
  Can you point me towards a commercial microreactor product? Apart from the Russian Federation ones, I mean.
I hope we have another carrington event. That'll fix it.

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