A recent article in Fortune speaks to a computer scientist named Andrew Chien who asserts that the new wave of OpenAI data centers will be consuming as much energy as New York City and San Diego combined when they are operating at full capacity during extreme weather. In different terms, this is 20% of the general electricity use of Texas, including the state’s quite large industrial capacity. Chien finds this “both exciting and alarming,” but overall seems joyful that computing will be taking up more energy. This is only OpenAI’s projects, and does not include everyone else in the artifical...
















