Snohomish County PUD plans for potential large-load customers
EVERETT — Data centers, built to power artificial intelligence, aren’t in Snohomish County yet.
Before that happens, Snohomish Public Utility District officials want to be ready.
“Our current work is focused on planning and readiness so we remain capable of serving larger loads in the future, should projects materialize,” Snohomish PUD spokesperson Erica Keene said in an email.
Whenever an AI engine provides an output, computers need to run hundreds or thousands of equations to find and display the correct information, and sometimes incorrect information (known as hallucinations). A 1 million square foot data center will hold close to 3 million computers, known as servers.
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