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11,799 Data Centers in 85 Years | Humanity’s New Fossil Fuel Is Intelligence Itself & A Lightbulb Per Query | Cost of Intelligence & AI Data Centers - ZEN Weekly #165The Digital Apocalypse: How AI Accidentally Turned Earth Into One Giant Battery Farm While We Were Busy Scrolling Through TikTokPicture this: While you've been reading this sentence, AI systems worldwide have consumed 2.7 megawatt-hours of electricity—enough to power 180 American homes for an entire day. Meanwhile, 137 new data centers came online in 2024 alone, each one capable of consuming more power than entire cities did in the year 2000. And here's the number that should terrify anyone payi