and it is expandable to 40 times that.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127184317#post3
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We've been used to almost flat electricity growth in the U.S. for 15 years, which is great for electricity costs. Electricity growth is very expensive as it causes new electric power plants to have to be built, and those are very expensive relative to what came before.
EIA.gov on U.S. electricity growth rate: from 2005 to 2020 it grew just 0.1%/year on average.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65264
From 1990 to 2005: 2.0%/year
From 2020-2026: 1.7%/yr (projection)
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And U.S. electricity generation was flat for so long, e.g. 2021 was about the same as 2007 (14 years). Also how a small change in average temperature results in an exponential increase in hot and extremely hot days. Also air conditioning electricity consumption grows with the SQUARE of the temperature difference https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143462957#post2
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As for SOME of what is in the OP's video
A lot of local governments give big tax breaks to data centers, extolling all the number of jobs it will create. But by far most of these jobs are remote.
How local governments and the industry hide what the projects are for, e.g. "Project Blue" at around 7:50 turns out to be an Amazon data center project
A lot are being built in relatively arid areas (because land is cheap there). They have very heavy water consumption for cooling.
Corruption of state and local officials at about 10:00 who approve these projects and the tax breaks and ballyhoo the jobs jobs jobs that supposedly justifies the tax breaks
And as far as jobs jobs jobs - the AI is expected to replace millions of jobs - witness the only 35,000/month average job growth over the last 3 months in the latest jobs report (that got Erika McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, fired by Tump). That's not all or mostly due to AI of course, but it contributes and this may become more the norm.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143505265
12:00 - natural gas powering some without the permitting projects (yes, greenhouse gases)
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