Consumers Are Footing the Bill for AI’s Insatiable Appetite for Energy

As data centers place more and more demand on global power grids, policy and economic priorities are shifting from creating more clean energy to creating more energy, period. Projected clean energy additions are simply not enough to meet the runaway demand of the global tech sector, meaning that climate goals could be at risk.  The proliferation of artificial intelligence is causing massive increases in energy demand from data centers, and the areas that host them are struggling to keep up. A 2024 study from scientists at Cornell University…