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Report: AI, Aircon Driving Surge in Global Electricity Demand

  • #Energy
  • #Electricity
  • #Artificial Intelligence
  • #Fossil fuel
  • #Climate change
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JUL 2024
Image copyright: Matthew T Rader via Wikimedia Commons
story last updated JUL 2024

The Spin

Narrative A

The push for renewables has lagged in the developing world, as the emerging markets want the same opportunity to develop as the West had. As climate change accelerates, the West needs to get real about the pros and cons of renewables and make it worthwhile for countries to switch. Anything other than massive grants shows how vacuous renewable proposals are.

Wall Street Journal

Narrative B

Energy consumption and climate change are locked in a brutally vicious cycle: Emissions drive climate change, which leads to increasing demand for electricity from emission-spewing sources. Renewables offer us the chance to break that cycle. There won't be any need for power on a dead planet, so industries have voted with their wallets and dumped billions into renewable projects, showing how bright the future can be.

New York Times

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