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Air Conditioning, Not Data Centers, Driving Global Energy Demand Growth
Friday April 4, 2025. 01:00 AM , from Slashdot
![]() China, India and the United States saw particularly sharp increases. Air conditioning represented 7% of global electricity consumption in 2022, with some U.S. regions reporting that cooling can comprise over 70% of residential energy use during peak periods. The number of air conditioning units worldwide could nearly triple from fewer than 2 billion in 2016 to approximately 6 billion by 2050, creating a growing challenge for power grids. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/04/03/220248/air-conditioning-not-data-centers-driving-global...
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