Texas grid operators sent a memo to AI companies in August: stop building data centers or we can’t guarantee power for everyone else. This isn’t theoretical anymore. AI is breaking electrical grids. A single NVIDIA H100 GPU cluster—the kind used to train large language models—draws 10.2 kilowatts. Continuously. Scale …

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Google’s data centers consumed 18 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2023. To put that in perspective: that’s more than Tunisia. And it’s getting worse. AI is the problem. Training a single large language model can emit as much carbon as five cars over their entire lifetimes. Every ChatGPT query uses electricity. Every …

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