AI data centers and EVs cause climate change; ban them
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
AI data centers and EVs cause Climate Change.
Better ban AI data centers and EVs to Save the Planet from Climate Catastrophe.
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“Projections for U.S. electricity demand growth over the next five years have doubled from a year ago.
The major culprits:
● New artificial-intelligence data centers,
● federally subsidized manufacturing plants, and
● the government-driven electric-vehicle transition.
Georgia Power recently increased 17-fold its winter power demand forecast by 2031, citing growth in new industries such as EV and battery factories.
AEP Ohio says new data centers and Intel’s $20 billion planned chip plant will increase strain on the grid.
● Chip factories and data centers can consume 100 times more power than a typical industrial business.
… Electricity demand to power data centers is projected to increase by 13% to 15% compounded annually through 2030.
Yet a shortage of power is already delaying new data centers by two to six years, according to commercial-real estate firm CBRE Group.
It is also driving Big Tech companies into the energy business.
Amazon this month struck a $650 million deal to buy a data center in Pennsylvania powered by an on-site 2.5 gigawatt nuclear plant.
● Data centers—like manufacturing plants—require reliable power around the clock year-round, which wind and solar don’t provide.
Businesses can’t afford to wait for batteries to become cost-effective.
●》Building transmission lines to connect distant renewables to the grid typically takes 10 to 12 years. …