This $1,000,000,000 AI data centre could dump 23 nuclear bombs worth of energy per day

Data centres are giant warehouses full of countless tiny computer chips (Picture: Getty/Metro)

What could be one of the world’s largest data centres – the warehouses that power AI – could dump 23 atomic bombs’ worth of energy per day.

The 40,000-acre Stratos Project Area, which would be kept ticking by a gas power plant, was approved by Box Elder County in Utah this month.

It will eventually gobble up about 9GW of power every single day – the UK generated 22.7GW of power yesterday, according to the National Grid.

In other words, the $1 billion data centre will get hot. Seriously hot, Utah State University physics professor Dr Rob Davies told Metro.

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