Kudos to you digging into power consumption.
I live in Licking County Ohio which is immediately east of Columbus. Let me tell ya, it seems the entire western edge of my county is getting paved over with warehousing. On top of that we have multiple Amazon facilities along with a huge Google facility.
Currently a mega-size Intel plant is under construction in this general area. If I told you the number of crane booms on this Intel site that are visible from the nearest road, you wouldn’t believe me. I think my co-worker counted 30 on the last drive-by. And these rigs aren’t Joe Pesci size. Two 1200-tonners were recently moved in to set roof roof trusses.
Recently announced is another data center moving in to this area along with a Microsoft entity only about six miles from me as the goose flies.
All the above tripe I’ve written about is to preface my main point: it’s indescribable the amount of power transmission infrastructure that’s built or currenty under construction for this stuff...two HUGE substations along with many smaller ones situated at point-of-use. Adding to those are two Goliath size power transmission lines coming up from SE Ohio. I can’t accurately describe the amount of power construction that has happened and is happening.
Interesting to me is a good deal of these assets were put in place several years ago. AEP is the big bronco in this. What did they know and WHEN did they know it?
My 5 kw/hrs worth
Speaking of Elon, he did some kind of demo a couple months ago that featured robots doing human tasks. It quickly dropped off the radar because I think it scared a lot of people.
Also, Trump has some kind of AI dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago.
The AI future is here.
