An Enormous Data Center In Wyoming Will Consume 5x More Power Than The State’s People. The Owner Remains A Mystery
According to the mayor of the largest city of the state, a great artificial intelligence data center comes to Wyoming, and so great that according to the mayor of the state’s largest city, it will eventually use five times more electricity than all the houses in the state.
Mayor of Cheyenne Patrick Collins The project called the “game exchanger.” Associated Press“Very big.” The facility is a common effort between the energy infrastructure company Tall and AI Data Center developer Crusoe. 1.8 Gigawatt will start using force and expand to 10 Gigawatt, companies stated.
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Wyoming to put this on the perspective is the US state with at least 587,000 people. Nevertheless, this single data center will use more electricity than it is currently consumed. Full capacity, the site would attract electricity 87.6 Terawatt hours per year-according to the total existing energy production of Wyoming, Ars technica.
In a statement given to the AP, the authorities from the companies will rely on their own special natural gas and renewable energy sources, since it will be impossible to attract so much power from the public network,
“This emphasizes projects that we can obtain through continuous trade tasks such as Wyoming and Wyoming for natural gas manufacturers – and our last visit to Taiwan and Japan.” Mark Gordon In a statement published by companies.
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The project is expected to be built just south of Cheyenne near the Colorado border. “I believe that your plans will go earlier, not later,” Collins, while Collins still has to get approval. He said.
This Wyoming plant is part of a much larger trend. Data centers now make up 5% of the total US electricity demand, which can be more than twice the next five years. accordingly Predictions McKinsey & Co.
“Energy will soon be AI bottleneck,” Published recentlyTo point to 23% growth rate for power needs for AI facilities.
Expansion is not limited to the USA McKinsey is waiting Approximately 7 trillion dollars to be spent globally on data centers until 2030, more than 40% of which occurs in the USA
