The first data from 2026 seem to indicate that last year was an oddity.
Last year, the first few months of data from the US grid suggested that fears of a data-center-driven surge in demand were becoming a reality. Demand had risen by about 3 percent, triggering a surge in coal, interrupting what had been a long downward trend. But over the course of the year, both trends slowed considerably.
If the second Trump term ends up being the catalyst for a green future, I think I might have to reconsider my belief that accelerationism doesn’t work.
Dams/hydroelectric facilities devastate local ecologies. That’s why states which have been trying to restore their local environments have been removing some and upgrading others–not expanding these systems.
This is the USA now, preferring every energy source that is bad for the environment
