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Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035
"Your chatbot is hungry and it's eating the entire Indian power grid."
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New projections indicate that data center power consumption will quadruple by 2035 as the race for AGI intensifies. The projected energy demand from new facilities alone is expected to match the current total electricity usage of India, highlighting a massive looming bottleneck in physical infrastructure and hardware scaling.
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