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Beck: AI will need India's power and US drinking water by 2030
“We estimate that in the next four or five years, by 2030, AI will need the incremental power of the whole of India and the incremental drinking water of the whole of the United States.”
Beck: 60% of data center projects are delayed due to resource bottlenecks
“And today, 60% of the data center projects are delayed, mostly because natural resources are not here or because communities are pushing back.”
Beck: Next-gen data centers will use no more water than a car wash
“The way we share it with politicians in our areas, for instance, to say, well, the new data center are not going to use more water than a car wash.”
Beck: AI Growth Will Halt Without Water Recycling and Renewables
“There will be no AI if we can't reuse the water, there will be no power if we can't use more renewables as well going forward, and there will be no data center if we don't have people in community in democratic countries like the United States that are saying,…”
Beck: New chip generations demand 10x more power every ten months
“We know from all the chief manufacturers or designers, all the famous names that we're familiar with. Well, they're coming with new generations. Every 10 months, roughly now, and every 10 months the power is multiplied by 10, and that's becoming six months, an…”
Beck: $900 billion will be invested in data center infrastructure in 2026
“Nine hundred billions are going to be invested in data center infrastructure in twenty-twenty-six alone.”
Beck: Cooler AI chips will prevail over warm-water cooling approaches
“I think that the cooler chips are going to prevail.”
Beck: AI currently consumes the power of roughly 50 nuclear plants
“AI today uses the power equivalent of roughly 50 nuclear plants.”
Beck: Global Water Demand Had a 56% Supply Gap Before AI
“And we know that already before AI, we had a gap of 56% between what we needed and what that bubble is gonna be able to provide.”
Beck: 95% to 97% of existing data centers use air cooling
“95, 97% of the data centers that are existing out there are cooled by air, the air conditioning approach.”
Beck: Semiconductor water is a million times purer than used in pharmaceuticals
“We've learned that the most extreme pure water that's being used on the planet is to produce chips. Because those chips need to be produced in ultra pure water because any impurity that is in the water that comes from the chip kills the chip. And that's how we…”
Beck: Reusing data center waste heat for electricity will be the future
“And a third one which is something that we working on, it's to reuse that heat to produce electricity. And if you produce electricity, well, you reduce the electricity that's needed to power the data center as well, which I think is going to be the future beca…”
Beck: Compute consumes roughly 60% of data center power, cooling takes 40%
“Because when you think about a data center, the power consumption, it's roughly 60% of the power is being used to compute and 40% is being used to cool.”
Beck: Data center construction jumped from one yearly pre-COVID to one weekly
“When we started on that journey right before COVID it was roughly one data center a year. That was being built, and today, one a week, and 50% of them are in the United States, 30% are in China, and 20% everywhere else”