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440 watts of electric power per second. That would only be enough power to light four and a half 100-watt electric lightbulbs. Most homes and appliances in homes have requirements based on a kilowatt.
Example 2, a home. A typical home’ s power usage is approximately 30 KWH per day. Now when we start talking about multiple houses, the energy demand is measured not in kilowatts( thousands of watts), but in megawatts, millions of watts. Megawatt usage per hour is shortened to MWH. Now a typical home consumes about 1.0 megawatts of power every month.
Example 3, a small municipality. So, a small municipality with 1000 homes would require 1000 megawatts of power per month. Finally, when we start talking about the electric power of consumption of data centers which are necessary to provide the computing capability that makes up AI or any other complex computer-based information processing centers, we are talking in units of one thousand megawatts or a gigawatt( GW) which is a billion watts. The example of 1000 homes per month using 1000 watts of power( one megawatt) becomes 1000 megawatts per month or one gigawatt per month.
Example 4, the Hoover Dam. In terms we can hopefully relate to, the Hoover Dam produces roughly two GWs of power per second, assuming the water level of Lake Mead is at the appropriate level. Now, a“ typical” AI data center, assuming such a thing even exists, is projected to consume between 100 to over 500 MW of power per second. So, in terms we can now grasp, the newer larger projected AI data centers, assuming they
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