The Real Cost of Our Energy Demand | An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet

Electricity demand from artificial intelligence is set to quadruple in a decade, making data centers one of the fastest-growing electricity users on the planet. And many of the communities that use the least energy will suffer the biggest consequences. In this episode of An Optimist’s Guide to the...

48 min - Engineering & Megastructures - Bloomberg Originals

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