Every AI company is adding one more US state of emissions
Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
“The 4.5 gigawatt facility in Texas, if you burn fossil, because there’s no other way, will generate about 2.5 million to 2.7 million tons of carbon every year. That’s more than two-thirds of all the CO2 emissions done by Vermont in 2023. It’s almost as much as a U.S. state emitting. We’re talking about one company.” — 00:10:19
Context: Extends it: “So we have Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire. Every company is adding one more state of emissions. This is 2025” [00:11:01] — equal to 2 million cars’ exhaust next to a town of 100,000. Agrees with host that growth from here is exponential, not linear [00:11:48].