I deleted my previous post on Eric Schmidt's testimony before Congress of the energy needs of AI. As @rra𝓻𝓻𝓪 pointed out, the article from futurism.com I referred to misquoted Schmidt. (Sorry for the orphaned replies.)

Below is the actual transcript. It's 9% (rather than 99%) of total energy generation. To meet this demand by nuclear power alone, 67 more nuclear power plants would have to become operational within the next 5 years.

"Now, just to do the translation, an average nuclear power plant in the United States is one gigawatt. How many nuclear power plants can we make in one year while we're planning this 10 gigawatt data center? It gives you a sense of how big this crisis is. Many people think that the demand of energy part that our industry takes will go from 3% to 9% of total generation. One of the estimates that I think is most likely is that data centers will require an additional 29 gigawatts of power by 2027 and 67 more gigawatts by 2030. Gives you a sense of the scale that we're talking. These things are industrial at a scale I have never seen in my life in the terms of energy planning. The current model is mostly natural gas peaker plants plus renewables, and that's probably going to be the path we're going to have to follow to get there."

https://www.techpolicy.press/transcript-us-lawmakers-probe-ais-role-in-energy-and-climate/