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We know

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that everybody talks

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about the millions

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of gallons of water

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that are needed

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to cool

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these data centers

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but how much

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electricity do

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they need to do all that

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processing, like this

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Microsoft one

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in Mount Pleasant?

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It varies

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quite a bit by

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data center

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and the type

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of data center.

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But, the Mount Pleasant

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data center, I think, is

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supposed to use

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about 450 megawatts of power

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and that is a lot.

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That's about the same amount

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as all the households

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in Milwaukee together.

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So it's not like

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there are hundreds

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and hundreds

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of megawatts of power

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that is just like

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kind of laying around

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being, waiting to be used.

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And so

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we don't necessarily

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have the capacity

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to meet all that demand

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as it is today

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and so we are

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going to need

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new infrastructure

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new transmission lines

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new power plants

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in order to meet

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that demand.

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So what about the cost

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of this energy demand

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and then that infrastructure

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of which you speak?

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Does that get passed

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along to the consumer?

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Like, am I going to see it

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in my electric bill?

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So you can imagine that

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when more people

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want something

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the price sometimes

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tend to go up because

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there's maybe a limit

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to the supply of that

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of electricity.

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But also, the way

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utilities do things

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is that they build

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infrastructure to meet

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the demand of their customers.

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How the utilities

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will do things and also

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what kind of contracts

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these companies are able

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to get with the utilities

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a lot of that

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will determine

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how energy bills

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will or might change.