Donald Trump · OpenAI · Republicans · CNBC Technology
Should Husted lose because of data centers, "the industry will be blamed," and both parties will take notice
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Trump weighed in on Wednesday, acknowledging that while data centers "can use a little public relations help," communities should welcome them.
Key facts
- Ohio is home to several large data center projects, including a massive 10-gigawatt campus in Pike County that could cost more than $500 billion, as CNBC previously reported
- The outlandish idea turned into a collaborative 90-second video, created with Garage Beer, which is owned by Jason and Travis Kelce
- Andy Pearson, vice president of creative at Liquid Death, told CNBC in an interview
- Ten gigawatts is roughly equivalent to the annual power consumption of 8 million U.S. households, according to a CNBC analysis of data from the Energy Information Administration
Summary
During a brainstorming session earlier this summer, a group of comedians and employees at beverage company Liquid Death kicked around an idea for a brazen new advertising campaign that would humorously shed light on the amount of water required to operate massive artificial intelligence data centers. "It was an idea of just, hey, what if they used pee to cool data centers instead of water? The outlandish idea turned into a collaborative 90-second video, created with Garage Beer, which is owned by Jason and Travis Kelce. Liquid Death and Garage Beer dropped the video on Tuesday, the same day voters in Florida headed to the polls to vote in the gubernatorial primaries, with the leading Republican candidates focused on data centers as a central issue.