This headline should be waking more people up! Why are we allowing this?The factory would include the construction of a 78,000sq m AI factory in Makarewa, just north of Invercargill, equipped with a grid exit point electricity substation.… Once operational, it would consume 280MW of power, making it New Zealand’s second-largest electricity user after the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter.https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/ai-factory-rival-smelter-power-use#AI #DataCentre #PowerPrices #NZ #NZTwits
