The Ledger, every show
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Dreyfus: Standard electrification will trigger US power shortfalls without AI
“Now, if we simply just want to achieve our objectives to re-industrialize, re-shore, electrify, when I say electrify, that just means replacing your old gas boilers in these buildings with heat pumps, which every commercial building is doing. It means, you kno…”
Dreyfus: China controls the technological know-how for rare earth processing
“The Chinese have all the technological know-how to convert what you take out of the ground and convert it into something that we can use.”
Dreyfus: Building 15 GW of AI factories yearly will require 750k tons of copper
“Data centers for a one gigawatt AI factory now, you need 50,000 tons of copper per gigawatt, and we're gonna start building 15 gigawatts of these things per year.”
Dreyfus: Electricity inflation stems from transmission costs, not generation
“What's really interesting, I think, is really underappreciated, is that's where all the inflation is coming from. It's from the transmission and distribution from the utility, because power prices over the last 20 years, even after the rise we've just had, pow…”
A 1-gigawatt solar-powered AI data center requires 35,000 acres
“A one gigawatt data center needs five gigawatts of solar. Each gigawatt of solar takes up 7000 acres. So at five gigawatts, that's 35,000 acres. That's bigger than San Francisco.”
Dreyfus: US cannot build nuclear containment vessels domestically
“And nuclear, you know, we can't really build it. We can't even build the containment vessels in this country. The Koreans can do it, but we can't do that here.”
Boeing and Airbus share a $1 trillion backlog over 10 years
“Boeing and Airbus have a trillion dollars of backlog over the next 10 years.”