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AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents
Proposed datacenter would demand 5x Wyoming’s current power use at full deployment.
On Monday, Mayor Patrick Collins of Cheyenne, Wyoming, announced plans for an AI data center that would consume more electricity than all homes in the state combined, according to the Associated Press. Because drawing this much power from the public grid is untenable, the project will rely on its own dedicated gas generation and renewable energy sources, according to Collins and company officials. Chris Lehane, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer, told the Associated Press last week that the Texas facility generates "roughly and depending how you count, about a gigawatt of energy" and represents "the largest data center—we think of it as a campus—in the world."
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