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I’m the only developer of data centers on earth that graduated from environmental studies. I'm pretty aware of what these concerns are. They are around air, water use, heat, noise pollution. So sustainability is at the heart of what we do in terms of all these proposals. We search... show more

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The narrative about data centers that were built in Virginia 20 years ago, they were old technology. They used a lot of water, they were very noisy, they created a lot of heat. But like every other technology, it's advanced dramatically. Today, we don't use a lot of water in data centers because it's a closed loop system like your car, your radiator. It stays inside a system. Many turbines now don't use water at all, they’re air-cooled. This narrative about data centers destroying the environment is an old story, and it's being used by those that don't wanna see this advance. We just need more capacity. We have to build it more responsibly, and that's exactly what's going on now. So this narrative is mostly a falsehood. And I think I know who's spreading this falsehood by the way. They're not our friends.

The narrative about data centers that were built in Virginia 20 years ago, they were old technology. They used a lot of water, they were very noisy, they created a lot of heat. But like every other technology, it's advanced dramatically. Today, we don't use a lot of water in data centers because it's a closed loop system like your car, your radiator. It stays inside a system. Many turbines now don't use water at all, they’re air-cooled. This narrative about data centers destroying the environment is an old story, and it's being used by those that don't wanna see this advance. We just need more capacity. We have to build it more responsibly, and that's exactly what's going on now. So this narrative is mostly a falsehood. And I think I know who's spreading this falsehood by the way. They're not our friends.

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I'm always concerned that there's a misconception about what a data center is because it was so poorly represented from the early days. I think I'm the only guy doing this that graduated from environmental studies. I was one of the first cohorts in the late '70s. And what they told us that understanding the value of sustainability, water and air rights, indigenous rights, and making sure the constituencies understand what you're doing is going to be more valuable than the equity you raise. They were right!

I'm always concerned that there's a misconception about what a data center is because it was so poorly represented from the early days. I think I'm the only guy doing this that graduated from environmental studies. I was one of the first cohorts in the late '70s. And what they told us that understanding the value of sustainability, water and air rights, indigenous rights, and making sure the constituencies understand what you're doing is going to be more valuable than the equity you raise. They were right!

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We have to give the economic benefit to them, around 10,000 jobs in the first gigawatt in construction, then 2,000 jobs to maintain it. High-paying engineering and support jobs. They really matter. There's lots of rumors that we're going to suck the Great Salt Lake dry. That's ridiculous. Of course that's not gonna happen. In fact, if anything, we'll be adding to the Great Salt Lake because the water rights on that land will be used and one of the hyperscalers even said to us, "Let's use air cooled so there's no water involved." There's lots of different optionality here, but the rhetoric around that site is just a lot of misinformation

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ELON: WE HAVE A GREAT WATER FUTURE AHEAD OF US “We call Earth Earth, but actually Earth is 70% water by surface area. So, technically, I think if aliens came here, they would name us Water because we are 70% water and only 30% land. What that means is the potential for solving any given water issue is extremely good. There's obviously desalination required at times and the transport of water, but it has become very inexpensive. And so, really, the availability of fresh water is simply about energy and transport. When I talk to even very well-read, very smart people in the United States, they will often think, well, the water crisis is unsolvable, but in fact it is very solvable. And we are continuing breakthroughs in the efficiency of desalination. I think we've got a great water future ahead of us and I think a great sustainable energy future ahead of us.” Source: Water Summit in Bali, May 2024

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ROGAN: "The floods were f*cking real, man. There's too many different tales of floods in too many different religions." "Somewhere around 11,800 years ago, we ran into a comet storm and they slammed into North America and that's how the floods happened." SEGURA: "That's how the Earth took the shape that it's in right now." ROGAN: "That's the shape of North America. There's a lot of evidence of that." "It completely makes sense that that's what the stories are. There's so many stories of a flood. Epic of Gilgamesh, it's in the Quran, it's in the Bible. They all have stories of a Great Flood." "Every ancient culture has stories of a Great Flood that happened a long time ago. Guaranteed, it had to happen."

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My job is to communicate the facts, and that's what I do. 20 years ago, even 10 years ago, data centers in Virginia, where they started, used a lot of water and it caused prices to go up when it was attached to the grid. Well, you cannot attach the grid anymore. The Utah project contemplates bringing new power to Utah. All of the power will be created from nat gas pipeline that runs through there, and will give back to the community. It will generate enough power that some percentage of it will go back to the grid. If you want China to overtake our ability to develop cutting edge technology, you stop data centers. So that's the cause and effect of it all. If you want China to lead, take over our, let's call it democracy, our free speech, and the way we live with technology, just stop building data centers. It's that simple.

My job is to communicate the facts, and that's what I do. 20 years ago, even 10 years ago, data centers in Virginia, where they started, used a lot of water and it caused prices to go up when it was attached to the grid. Well, you cannot attach the grid anymore. The Utah project contemplates bringing new power to Utah. All of the power will be created from nat gas pipeline that runs through there, and will give back to the community. It will generate enough power that some percentage of it will go back to the grid. If you want China to overtake our ability to develop cutting edge technology, you stop data centers. So that's the cause and effect of it all. If you want China to lead, take over our, let's call it democracy, our free speech, and the way we live with technology, just stop building data centers. It's that simple.

Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful

22,759 views • 3 months ago

When people say data centers use millions of gallons of water, they're describing an old technology. Before, water went into evaporative cooling towers. Warm water pulled heat off the AI chips, then evaporated into the air to shed it. It was effective, but it burned through fresh water continuously, which is where the headline numbers come from today around "data centers use a massive amount of water." The data centers we revealed at Build today don't work that way. The cooling loop is closed. Water is added once during construction and recirculates indefinitely between the servers and the chillers. No evaporation, no fresh-water resupply! Satya put the scale in plain terms: a full year of water use is roughly what a single restaurant uses. Keep in mind that for us, every liter and every watt is an optimization target. The economics and the environment push in the same direction!

When people say data centers use millions of gallons of water, they're describing an old technology. Before, water went into evaporative cooling towers. Warm water pulled heat off the AI chips, then evaporated into the air to shed it. It was effective, but it burned through fresh water continuously, which is where the headline numbers come from today around "data centers use a massive amount of water." The data centers we revealed at Build today don't work that way. The cooling loop is closed. Water is added once during construction and recirculates indefinitely between the servers and the chillers. No evaporation, no fresh-water resupply! Satya put the scale in plain terms: a full year of water use is roughly what a single restaurant uses. Keep in mind that for us, every liter and every watt is an optimization target. The economics and the environment push in the same direction!

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ELON: WE COULD POWER ALL OF EARTH WITH SOLAR AND BATTERIES “We already have a giant fusion reactor in the sky called the sun that shows up every day. I always say, if you want to know what standing in front of a fusion reactor feels like, just go out and stand in front of the sun. Just walk outside. That's what a giant fusion reactor feels like because that's what the sun is. It converts about four and a half million tons of mass to energy every second and requires no maintenance. It's amazing. You don't have to refuel it, you don't have to maintain it, it's just there. So my recommendation for fusion is solar power and batteries. We can easily power all of Earth with just photovoltaics and batteries. I mean, not easily, but there's a very clear path to do so and no miracles required, just work.” Source: WSJ Interview, May 23, 2023

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61,247 views • 1 year ago

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Elon Musk: Here's what we need to have a fully sustainable energy economy. “There are three elements to a sustainable energy future. One is sustainable energy generation, which is primarily wind and solar. There's also hydro, geothermal. I'm actually pro-nuclear. I think nuclear is fine. But it's going to be primarily solar and wind as the primary generators of energy. The second part is you need batteries to store the solar and wind energy, because the sun doesn't shine all the time, the wind doesn't blow all the time. So it's a lot of stationary battery packs. And then you need electric transport. So electric cars, electric planes, boats. And ultimately we can have a fully sustainable energy economy. And it's those three things: solar/wind, stationary battery pack, electric vehicles. So then what are the limiting factors on progress? The limiting factor really will be battery cell production. So that's going to really be the fundamental rate driver.” Source: TED, April 14, 2022.

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I think the fact is there are only going to be four or five of these companies that are able to raise the billions required to build the infrastructure to support these models. It's a global competition, and particularly against the Chinese right now because they're trying to beat us on AI, because the country with the best AI is gonna win all the wars. That's what's gonna happen. I think at the end of the day you want diversification in your portfolio, not just one stack. For me, I'm playing the picks and shovels. I'm building energy because you need energy for this stuff, and I'm building data centers. Now, there are different things, but right now we need more electrical power in this country beyond just data centers. We just need power because we got a booming economy.

I think the fact is there are only going to be four or five of these companies that are able to raise the billions required to build the infrastructure to support these models. It's a global competition, and particularly against the Chinese right now because they're trying to beat us on AI, because the country with the best AI is gonna win all the wars. That's what's gonna happen. I think at the end of the day you want diversification in your portfolio, not just one stack. For me, I'm playing the picks and shovels. I'm building energy because you need energy for this stuff, and I'm building data centers. Now, there are different things, but right now we need more electrical power in this country beyond just data centers. We just need power because we got a booming economy.

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13,143 views • 2 months ago

Elon Musk: Eventually, 90%+ of all power on Earth will be solar panels with batteries. “Satellites are just solar panels and a battery. That's how all satellites work. And with the Starlink satellite network, there's 7,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, and all they use is solar panels and a battery. And my prediction is, long term, a majority of power on Earth, in fact, eventually it might be like 90% or more of all power on Earth will be solar panels with batteries. That's my prediction.” Tesla All-Hands, March 20, 2025

Elon Musk: Eventually, 90%+ of all power on Earth will be solar panels with batteries. “Satellites are just solar panels and a battery. That's how all satellites work. And with the Starlink satellite network, there's 7,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, and all they use is solar panels and a battery. And my prediction is, long term, a majority of power on Earth, in fact, eventually it might be like 90% or more of all power on Earth will be solar panels with batteries. That's my prediction.” Tesla All-Hands, March 20, 2025

ELON CLIPS

135,094 views • 11 months ago

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on "leaving AI in the lab for longer” (full question + answer in the video as I've seen him misquoted). Here's what he said: "For me, the best use case of AI was to improve human health and accelerate scientific discovery..." "Given how important AGI is and how transformative a technology is, maybe the most transformative one in human history, I thought it would be best to approach the sort of latter stages of building it, which we're in now, using the scientific method, very carefully, very precisely, very thoughtfully, and rigorously with all the best scientists, in my ideal world, collaborating on in CERN-like effort, on making sure each step we understood each step each as we got to the final goal of, of building AGI.... "While we're building AGI in this careful scientific way, humanity could benefit from the proceeds of that, like cures for cancer, or maybe new energy sources or new materials… “Looking at this from 20, 30 years ago when I started out on all of this, that would have been the ideal way for it to play out, in my opinion. “Now, it didn't happen like that because technology's unpredictable and in fact, it turns out that things like language were a lot easier than we were all expecting… “We were sort of playing around with that, so were the other leading labs, but of course with ChatGPT and fair play to OpenAI, they scaled it and then they put it out there. “And I think even they say it was kind of a research experiment. They didn't realize it would go so viral. And I think none of us did and we had sort of fairly equivalent systems at the time… “Now, the downside of it is, we're in this sort of ferocious commercial pressure race that everyone's sort of locked into currently. “And then on top of that, there's geopolitical issues like the US-China race and so on. So there's sort of multiple levels of pressure to sort of move fast. So the benefit of that, of course, you get faster progress, obviously. The progress is just at lightning speed these days. So that's good for all the good use cases. The second benefit is that everybody, all of the viewers out there, everyone, you're all getting to use the most cutting edge AI technology, perhaps only three to six months behind what is actually in the labs. So that's kind of mind blowing. “It's also great because I think it gives everyone a feeling for, it's democratizing AI. It's giving everyone a feeling for what it's like to interact with cutting edge AI and what it can do and what it can't do… “So I think there's positives and negatives about the way it's gone. It's not the way I dreamed about years ago where we would be sort of contemplating this philosophically and carefully considering each next step. We're not in that world. And I'm, although I'm a scientist first and foremost, I'm also a pragmatic engineer. So, we have to deal with the world as we find it and make the best of that. And we try to do that by advancing the frontier, but also trying to be as responsible as we can with doing that as we deploy these, you know, very powerful technologies, like Gemini and Alphafold.”

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on "leaving AI in the lab for longer” (full question + answer in the video as I've seen him misquoted). Here's what he said: "For me, the best use case of AI was to improve human health and accelerate scientific discovery..." "Given how important AGI is and how transformative a technology is, maybe the most transformative one in human history, I thought it would be best to approach the sort of latter stages of building it, which we're in now, using the scientific method, very carefully, very precisely, very thoughtfully, and rigorously with all the best scientists, in my ideal world, collaborating on in CERN-like effort, on making sure each step we understood each step each as we got to the final goal of, of building AGI.... "While we're building AGI in this careful scientific way, humanity could benefit from the proceeds of that, like cures for cancer, or maybe new energy sources or new materials… “Looking at this from 20, 30 years ago when I started out on all of this, that would have been the ideal way for it to play out, in my opinion. “Now, it didn't happen like that because technology's unpredictable and in fact, it turns out that things like language were a lot easier than we were all expecting… “We were sort of playing around with that, so were the other leading labs, but of course with ChatGPT and fair play to OpenAI, they scaled it and then they put it out there. “And I think even they say it was kind of a research experiment. They didn't realize it would go so viral. And I think none of us did and we had sort of fairly equivalent systems at the time… “Now, the downside of it is, we're in this sort of ferocious commercial pressure race that everyone's sort of locked into currently. “And then on top of that, there's geopolitical issues like the US-China race and so on. So there's sort of multiple levels of pressure to sort of move fast. So the benefit of that, of course, you get faster progress, obviously. The progress is just at lightning speed these days. So that's good for all the good use cases. The second benefit is that everybody, all of the viewers out there, everyone, you're all getting to use the most cutting edge AI technology, perhaps only three to six months behind what is actually in the labs. So that's kind of mind blowing. “It's also great because I think it gives everyone a feeling for, it's democratizing AI. It's giving everyone a feeling for what it's like to interact with cutting edge AI and what it can do and what it can't do… “So I think there's positives and negatives about the way it's gone. It's not the way I dreamed about years ago where we would be sort of contemplating this philosophically and carefully considering each next step. We're not in that world. And I'm, although I'm a scientist first and foremost, I'm also a pragmatic engineer. So, we have to deal with the world as we find it and make the best of that. And we try to do that by advancing the frontier, but also trying to be as responsible as we can with doing that as we deploy these, you know, very powerful technologies, like Gemini and Alphafold.”

Cleo Abram

64,840 views • 3 months ago

.Secretary Marco Rubio: "We have very few things left in our society, and I would say in the world, that convenes us all. We are so divided by so many different things... This is one of those few things we have left... that brings so many people, from so many different places, so many different backgrounds, and so many different points of view together, for a few hours, to enjoy one thing in common— and the bonding power of that is incredible."

.Secretary Marco Rubio: "We have very few things left in our society, and I would say in the world, that convenes us all. We are so divided by so many different things... This is one of those few things we have left... that brings so many people, from so many different places, so many different backgrounds, and so many different points of view together, for a few hours, to enjoy one thing in common— and the bonding power of that is incredible."

Rapid Response 47

143,551 views • 1 month ago

Elon Musk: In the future, SpaceX will generate sustainable rocket propellant. “We do have a long-term plan for sustainability of rocket flights by generating propellant using sustainable energy, wind and solar. Starting first with liquid oxygen – and for Starship, it's almost 80% liquid oxygen, and 20% liquid methane. It's obviously pretty easy to create oxygen, you just use wind and solar electricity and you do air separation as the oxygen is already in the air – the plants are making the oxygen. So, you can just use renewable electricity to create 80% of the propellant of the rocket. And then for the remaining 20%, you can use the Sabatier process where you actually take CO2 out of the atmosphere and you combine that with water to create CH4 and more O2. And that's in fact what we would do on Mars to generate propellant. So, there is a long-term plan for sustainable generation of propellant for the rockets. I do want to emphasize that. And if there was some other way to do that now, we certainly would.” XPRIZE discussion with Peter Diamandis, April 22, 2021

Elon Musk: In the future, SpaceX will generate sustainable rocket propellant. “We do have a long-term plan for sustainability of rocket flights by generating propellant using sustainable energy, wind and solar. Starting first with liquid oxygen – and for Starship, it's almost 80% liquid oxygen, and 20% liquid methane. It's obviously pretty easy to create oxygen, you just use wind and solar electricity and you do air separation as the oxygen is already in the air – the plants are making the oxygen. So, you can just use renewable electricity to create 80% of the propellant of the rocket. And then for the remaining 20%, you can use the Sabatier process where you actually take CO2 out of the atmosphere and you combine that with water to create CH4 and more O2. And that's in fact what we would do on Mars to generate propellant. So, there is a long-term plan for sustainable generation of propellant for the rockets. I do want to emphasize that. And if there was some other way to do that now, we certainly would.” XPRIZE discussion with Peter Diamandis, April 22, 2021

ELON CLIPS

20,365 views • 11 months ago