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A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals


World Energy Transitions Outlook 2022 - IRENA

Achieving the 2050 climate target depends on sufficient action by 2030, with the coming eight years being critical for accelerating the renewables-based ...

AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major ... - NPR

And as AI gets more sophisticated, it needs more energy. In the U.S., a majority of that energy comes from burning fossil fuels like coal and ...

Growing data volumes drive need for ICT energy innovation

The exponential increase in computational power needed will send electricity soaring, putting a strain on energy grids and threatening to raise ...

America's Ambitious Climate Plan Is Faltering - WSJ

Overshadowing the gathering is a surge in electricity demand. The U.S. power sector had been a bright spot. Emissions have declined as natural ...

Utilities are... - Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke - Facebook

... The New York Times · NYTIMES.COM. A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals. A boom in data centers and factories is straining ele... Ruth ...

CLIMATE CHANGE 2023 - IPCC

The AR6 SYR confirms that unsustainable and unequal energy and land use as well as more than a century of burning fossil fuels have unequivocally caused global ...

What the U.S. Power Grid Needs To Survive Climate Change

The surge in power use has placed a particularly intensive strain on the faulty U.S. grid. Now, energy specialists, lawmakers and business ...

AI data center boom challenges utilities - Axios

AI advances may frustrate U.S. climate goals as electric demand surges ... Artificial intelligence's thirst for electricity is conspiring with ...

Why is US energy demand soaring – putting climate goals at risk?

Demand for power is soaring, creating a new energy crisis for the United States – one that could make the climate crisis even worse.

AdaptNYC - NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice

Climate change is impacting New York City and its residents, and causing more extreme heat, extreme rainfall, coastal storm surge, and chronic tidal flooding.

Hurricanes and Climate Change - C2ES

Climate change is worsening hurricane impacts in the United States by increasing the intensity and decreasing the speed at which they travel.

Climate policy conflict in the U.S. states: a critical review and way ...

(2021) find, the largest utilities set renewable portfolio goals but then fail to make the investment decisions necessary to achieve them. They also find that ...

Project 2025 Would Jeopardize Global Climate Action

These policy proposals threaten America's role as a leader in the global clean energy transition, supported by Inflation Reduction Act ...

AI Is Already Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems - Bloomberg

By 2034, global energy consumption by data centers is expected to top 1,580 TWh, about as much as is used by all of India. These are only ...

Where are we on countries' climate contributions? – DW – 11/15/2024

The independent scientific project tracks government policies and measures them against the globally agreed Paris accord goal of holding warming ...

How the surging demand for energy and rise of AI is ... - CBS News

The surging demand for energy in the US is growing significantly for the first time in decades. Experts say it is forecast to hit record highs both this year ...

Surge of US-Led Fossil Fuel Projects Could Blow Up Paris Climate ...

The world's fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects by the end of this decade.

Biden administration sets landmark rules to clean up US power sector

President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday announced final rules targeting carbon, air and water pollution from power plants that it ...

Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding - C40 Cities

But, if the world fails to commit to the Paris Agreement's goal of reducing carbon emissions and limit global average temperature rise to 1.5oC, many of the ...

The Connections Between Population and Climate Change

Global greenhouse gas emissions averaged a record 54 gigatons of CO2-equivalent per year between 2010 and 2019, over two-thirds of which came from fossil fuel ...