The Real Cost of Your AI Use: Inside a Power-Hungry Data Center
The Wall Street Journalยท2025-08-06 14:00
Welcome to an AI data center where you can hear >> this is crazy power right now >> and feel >> this can blow dry my hair >> the power >> AI is 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. Okay, let's start with tracing this prompt. Create a video of a dancing steak.The moment you hit e ...