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Axios: AI advances may frustrate U.S. climate goals as electric demand surges https://www.axios.com/2024/04/26/ai-boom-electricity-demand-surge?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial #climate #ai #llms #climatedisaster #cliamteemergency
AI advances may frustrate U.S. climate goals as electric demand surges

Generative AI, plus growing manufacturing and electric vehicles, is spiking U.S. power demand.

Axios
Apr 26, 2024 at 4:32pmWeb
Show threadKevin CianfariniApr 26, 2024

@ai6yr To claim that AI electric demand stipulates new gas or coal fired generation is just incumbent investor owned utilities panicking and being obstinate.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/rising-electricity-demand-requires

Rising electricity demand requires new gas plants? Not so fast.

What’s the best way to handle rising US electricity demand? Contrary to what some large utilities and regulators think, it’s not building new fossil gas plants. In this episode, Eric Gimon and Michelle Solomon, coauthors of a new report from policy shop Energy Innovation, make the case that utilities have more effective options to address both short- and long-term demand.

Volts