Here is the situation:
“… According to UBS’s new report on US electrification — a glossy ode to “progress” that somehow reads like a utility-sector obituary — America is about to collide head-on with a physics problem: AI needs more electricity than the country can produce. A single NVIDIA GPU now consumes as much power as an entire US household, and hyperscaler datacenters deploy half a million to a million of them at a time.
Do the math. Actually don’t — it’s too depressing…”
– https://www.zerohedge.com/the-market-ear/ai-wants-your-job-and-now-it-wants-your-electricity-too
The situation is even worse for Michigan because we are still under a Net Zero regime which decreases the reliable electric supply even as 24/7 electric demand is rising.
We should not put our head in the sand and pretend we will be fine. Instead, we need to proactively work for local control of electric in order to ensure we are not the victim of rising electric prices combined with less reliable electric service.