He answers the "water/electric power" questions!-----AI Data Centers Are the Heroes, Not the Villains - Watts Up With That?

Fifty years ago, critics called the idea of a single integrated-circuit chip for a computer a fantasy.  -Gilbert Hyatt

• As the creator of that chip, I called it the future. 
• I was right.

The critics are back, this time casting AI data centers as a crisis for American infrastructure, water and local communities. 

They’re wrong again. 

The data center companies are the heroes, not the villains...

• AI data centers are essential to American dominance of the worldwide AI race. 
• Opponents are stirring up opposition to the AI data centers, miscasting them as a major problem to infrastructure. 
• If they succeed, the effect will be to drive data centers into foreign countries, hampering America in the AI race...

My work on the microprocessor came out of my efforts to help America win the cold war against the Soviet Union. 

Today, I’m writing this for the same reason: keeping America first. 

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, let’s remember that the data centers powering AI are financing America’s future, not draining it...