"OpenAI uses as much electricity as New York City and San Diego combined, at the peak of the intense 2024 heat wave.

"OpenAI uses as much electricity as New York City and San Diego combined, at the peak of the intense 2024 heat wave. Or as much as the total electricity demand of Switzerland and Portugal combined. That’s the electricity of roughly 20 million people."

The AI bubble and the US economy

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/the-ai-bubble-and-the-us-economy/