RT @BenjaminNorton
OpenAI uses as much electricity as New York City and San Diego combined, at the peak of the intense 2024 heat wave.

Or as much as the total electricity demand of Switzerland and Portugal combined.

That's the electricity of roughly 20 million people.
https://fortune.com/2025/09/24/sam-altman-ai-empire-new-york-city-san-diego-scary/

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’

Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

Fortune
@remixtures Data farms need to be controlled. We'll be in the Matrix soon!