Friday, August 1, 2025

AI Runs On Concrete, Copper, Cooling, And Natural Gas -- August 1, 2025

Locator: 48748AI.

AI runs on:

  • concrete: railroad
  • copper: railroad
  • natural gas:
  • cooling: Trane, Chart Industries (soon to be Baker Hughes subsidiary)

How much copper will the average Stargate large data center require? ChatGPT:

Even a single Stargate AI data center requires several thousand tonnes of copper—making it one of the most copper-intensive industrial infrastructures on the planet. When fully scaled, the Stargate initiative could represent a sizeable fraction of global copper consumption.

Also from ChatGPT: 

A 100-car freight train loaded with refined copper can carry ~ 9,000 metric tons of copper. That's roughly enough to supply 1 - 2 hyperscale data centers, or ~ 15% of the copper needed for a full 1.2 GW Stargate site.

MAGA: