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The Hidden Cost of AI, Explained With Steaks and a Data Center Visit | WSJ
The Wall Street Journal·2025-07-01 14:01
  • I'm gonna see the GPU guys. This is it. Welcome to an AI data center where you can hear.This is extremely loud right now. And feel. This can blow dry my hair.The power. The AI's in there. By 2028, data centers like this across the country could use 12% of all US electricity, enough to power more than 55 million homes for a year.And yes, you are increasing that energy. Every time you hit enter on an AI prompt, it's routed through places like this. - You know, we need to do the AI.And we need more than doub ...