"These facilities are so energy-intensive," Ari Peskoe, who directs the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University, told ABC News. "A single sort of warehouse can use as much electricity as a large U.S. city. The amount of new infrastructure that has to be built to power that facility is unlike anything we've seen in generations."

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Energy production and use correlates with quality of life. When energy in abundant people flourish. The biggest positive of the AI boom is the new energy production it could bring online. Nuclear power plants that were planned to shut down are being canceled. New plants are being planned.

I am sure the wealthy AI companies will use the state to make it happen. These farms have been subsidized by the same government. Farming in the US is in the midst of a massive shift and the agribusinesses are not happy about it. They mocked regenerative farming for decades and now many younger farmers get it.