We know
that everybody talks
about the millions
of gallons of water
that are needed
to cool
these data centers
but how much
electricity do
they need to do all that
processing, like this
Microsoft one
in Mount Pleasant?
It varies
quite a bit by
data center
and the type
of data center.
But, the Mount Pleasant
data center, I think, is
supposed to use
about 450 megawatts of power
and that is a lot.
That's about the same amount
as all the households
in Milwaukee together.
So it's not like
there are hundreds
and hundreds
of megawatts of power
that is just like
kind of laying around
being, waiting to be used.
And so
we don't necessarily
have the capacity
to meet all that demand
as it is today
and so we are
going to need
new infrastructure
new transmission lines
new power plants
in order to meet
that demand.
So what about the cost
of this energy demand
and then that infrastructure
of which you speak?
Does that get passed
along to the consumer?
Like, am I going to see it
in my electric bill?
So you can imagine that
when more people
want something
the price sometimes
tend to go up because
there's maybe a limit
to the supply of that
of electricity.
But also, the way
utilities do things
is that they build
infrastructure to meet
the demand of their customers.
How the utilities
will do things and also
what kind of contracts
these companies are able
to get with the utilities
a lot of that
will determine
how energy bills
will or might change.