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Eric Schmidt Apparently Bought Relativity Space To Put Data Centers in Orbit
Friday May 2, 2025. 10:45 PM , from Slashdot
![]() We know this because Schmidt appeared before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce during a hearing in April, speaking on the future of AI and US competitiveness. Among the topics raised then was the need for more electricity -- both renewable and non-renewable -- to power data centers that will facilitate the computing needs for AI development and applications. Schmidt noted that an average nuclear power plant in the United States generates 1 gigawatt of power. 'People are planning 10 gigawatt data centers,' Schmidt said. 'Gives you a sense of how big this crisis is. Many people think that the energy demand for our industry will go from 3 percent to 99 percent of total generation. One of the estimates that I think is most likely is that data centers will require an additional 29 gigawatts of power by 2027, and 67 more gigawatts by 2030. These things are industrial at a scale that I have never seen in my life.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/05/02/1839250/eric-schmidt-apparently-bought-relativity-space-...
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