#AI energy use
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Across the US, politicians are turning against data centres. Here is why your electricity bill is part of the story.
More than a dozen US states have weighed temporary bans on new data centres, the giant warehouse-like buildings that power AI services. Now ordinary energy customers are starting to understand why.
Amazon's Texas Data Center Could Become America's Biggest Climate Polluter
A planned natural gas power plant in Pecos County is permitted to release 33 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, more than any other single power plant in the United States.
Your ChatGPT question uses about as much electricity as a kettle boiled for one second
AI data centres ate roughly 0.5% of the world's electricity in 2025. That sounds small until you look at where those data centres actually are.
Big Tech's AI Data Centres Now Emit as Much Carbon as a Third of France
Microsoft, Amazon and Google collectively pumped out 119 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide last year. The main culprit: building more data centres to feed AI demand.
A Scottish AI megasite promised green energy. The reality looks very different.
An £8.2 billion AI data centre complex in rural Scotland overstated its plans to run entirely on renewable power. Reporters had to leave their desks to find that out.