#energydemand — Public Fediverse posts
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Energy Australia Proposes Expanding Marulan Gas Plant to 1.4 GW Amid Rising Power Demand
📰 Original title: Energy Australia's bid to build 1.4
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/energy-australia-proposes-expanding-marulan-gas-plant-to-1-4-gw-amid-rising-power-demand.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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Energy Australia Proposes Expanding Marulan Gas Plant to 1.4 GW Amid Rising Power Demand
📰 Original title: Energy Australia's bid to build 1.4
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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"In a detailed report released last week, titled The Urgent Case Against #DataCenters, #FWW pointed to some of the 'documented harms caused by #AI and data centers,' including:
- Enormous #energy footprints: A single hyperscale data center can consume as much energy as 2 million US households.
- A lifeline for #FossilFuels: The thirst for fuel is being met by keeping old #coal-fired power plants running and by building new natural gas ones. [And restarting old #NuclearPlants]
- Skyrocketing electricity costs: Increased #EnergyDemand can raise residential rates, which soared 31% from 2020 to 2025 (compared to 4% from 2015 to 2020).
- Drained water resources: By 2028, AI data centers could use as much water as 18.5 million households, just for cooling their servers.
- An investment bubble: A handful of companies are investing in one another and increasingly turning to risky debt structures to hide the threat of the bubble.
- A litany of other harms: This includes massive amounts of electronic waste (#EWaste), unrelenting noise pollution, loss of #farmland, political instability from #deepfake videos, lost revenue from data center tax incentives, and #ChildEndangerment from #AI #chatbots."#NoDatacenters #NoAI
#NoNukesForAI #UnrestrictedGrowth #WaterIsLife #NoisePollution
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A recent IMF report warns that by 2030, global electricity demand from AI could reach 1,500 terawatt-hours — that's equal to India’s total current energy consumption, and India is the 3rd-largest energy consumer in the world.
As AI advances, so do the stakes for our energy infrastructure and climate goals.