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Why are AI data centers using so much electricity? - Sajan Saini

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Since 2019, over a thousand warehouse campuses have popped up around the world. Each complex covers nearly 100,000 square meters, uses as much water as a small town, and as much electricity as a small city. These are AI data centers — facilities for running and training Large Language Models like ChatGPT. Sajan Saini explores the challenges and possibilities of these rapidly expanding complexes.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Sajan Saini
Director
Vicente Numpaque, Dr3i Studio
Narrator
Addison Anderson
Storyboard Artist
Lautaro Goncalves
Animator
Daniel Quintana
Art Director
Vicente Numpaque
Illustrator
Alexander Villalobos, Pablo Lopez
Visual Narrative
Estefania Jimenez
Dr3i Studio Project Manager
Nancy Granada
Composer
Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio
Sound Designer
Anthony Nguyen, cAMP Studio
Director of Production
Gerta Xhelo
Produced by
Sazia Afrin
Editorial Director
Alex Rosenthal
Editorial Producer
Dan Kwartler
Script Editor
George Zaidan
Fact-Checker
Charles Wallace
Special thanks to
FUTUR-IC at MIT, Dr. Alan Evans, Ben Lee

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