{"id":326856,"date":"2024-05-07T09:27:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T07:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=326856"},"modified":"2024-05-07T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T07:28:00","slug":"how-ai-is-outsmarting-green-energy-zero-carbon-fantasies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=326856","title":{"rendered":"How AI is outsmarting Green energy, zero carbon fantasies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"326860\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=326860\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00AI_shutterstock_1722492775-scaled-1.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1440\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"00AI_shutterstock_1722492775-scaled-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00AI_shutterstock_1722492775-scaled-1.jpg?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00AI_shutterstock_1722492775-scaled-1.jpg?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-326860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00AI_shutterstock_1722492775-scaled-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00AI_shutterstock_1722492775-scaled-1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00AI_shutterstock_1722492775-scaled-1.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00AI_shutterstock_1722492775-scaled-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00AI_shutterstock_1722492775-scaled-1.jpg?resize=2048%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00AI_shutterstock_1722492775-scaled-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00AI_shutterstock_1722492775-scaled-1.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00AI_shutterstock_1722492775-scaled-1.jpg?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2024\/05\/06\/how-ai-is-outsmarting-green-energy-zero-carbon-fantasies\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=how-ai-is-outsmarting-green-energy-zero-carbon-fantasies&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=how-ai-is-outsmarting-green-energy-zero-carbon-fantasies#\">CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/author\/larry597\/\">Larry Bell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" data-attachment-id=\"326858\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=326858\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00Artificial-Intelligence-Head.jpg?fit=450%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"450,338\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;3385524 - human head emerging from a water and binary code surface. digital illustration.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;andreus\/123RF&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"00Artificial-Intelligence-Head\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;3385524 &amp;#8211; human head emerging from a water and binary code surface. digital illustration.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00Artificial-Intelligence-Head.jpg?fit=450%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00Artificial-Intelligence-Head.jpg?resize=450%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-326858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00Artificial-Intelligence-Head.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00Artificial-Intelligence-Head.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00Artificial-Intelligence-Head.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00Artificial-Intelligence-Head.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">3385524 &#8211; human head emerging from a water and binary code surface. digital illustration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Big, artificial intelligence-related companies are soon coming to realize that net-zero emissions plans to kill and replace fossil energy with wind and solar is a dumb notion that will leave them and American power consumers competing in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As noted by Wall Street Journal writers Jennifer Hiller and Scott Patterson, giant data centers providing computing power&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/artificial-intelligences-insatiable-energy-needs-not-sustainable-arm-ceo-says-a11218c9?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">needed for artificial intelligence<\/a>&nbsp;are setting off a four-way battle among electric utilities trying to keep the lights on, tech companies that like to tout their climate credentials, consumers angry at rising electricity prices, and regulators overseeing investments in the grid and trying to turn it green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon, three of the largest AI data center users, have previously criticized a proposal by utility company Georgia Power to expand natural gas use at the expense of hurting their renewable energy programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem is that those centers require huge amounts of reliable electricity to operate, and no nearly adequate hydrocarbon replacement exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rise of ChatGPT and similar large-language AI models require&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/big-techs-latest-obsession-is-finding-enough-energy-f00055b2?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">huge amounts of computing power,<\/a>&nbsp;which has turbocharged data-center demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/how-big-data-centers-are-slowing-the-shift-to-clean-energy-44ef4145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft vice president Brian Janous observes<\/a>, whereas \u201cNo data center wants to be tied to the need for new fossil resources, that\u2019s the problem\u2026 You can\u2019t throw this much [data-center] capacity at the system and not have some degree of fossil resources to support it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An explosion of new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/why-the-ai-industrys-thirst-for-new-data-centers-cant-be-satisfied-93c7eff5?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hyperscale data centers<\/a>&nbsp;in Northern Virginia will consume enormous amounts of power, some using as much as currently used to supply the city of Seattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Referred to as \u201cData Center Alley,\u201d the area is home to about 150 data warehouses, which support about 70% of global internet traffic through a spider web of crisscrossing power lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon Web Services,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/AMZN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon.com<\/a>\u2019s cloud-computing business, has previously invested $52 billion in the region with plans to add another $35 billion by 2040.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon has reportedly enabled 19 solar farms in Virginia and is the world\u2019s largest corporate renewable energy buyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nevertheless, the company also struck a $650 million deal to buy a data center in Pennsylvania powered by a 2.5-gigawatt nuclear plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dominion Energy, which supplies electricity to most of the Virginia data centers, projects its power requirements to quadruple over the next 15 years, representing 40% of the utility\u2019s demand in the entire state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/how-big-data-centers-are-slowing-the-shift-to-clean-energy-44ef4145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dominion CEO Robert Blue said<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019re going to continue to be a big builder of renewables. We\u2019re building a big offshore wind farm. We\u2019re building a lot of solar. We\u2019re adding a lot of storage. \u2026 But we also recognize that we\u2019re going to need some more natural gas in order to keep the lights on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to developing more natural gas plants to balance power grids from expansions of intermittent renewables, rising demands are also delaying some retirement of coal plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/how-big-data-centers-are-slowing-the-shift-to-clean-energy-44ef4145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Duke Energy has told Carolina regulators<\/a>&nbsp;it will need either three new gas-fired plants or keep existing coal plants open longer than planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dominion wants to build a 1,000-megawatt natural gas plant in Chesterfield County, where a coal plant closed last year, stating that the addition is critically important for reliability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Significant costs for these increased power demands \u2014 including transmission infrastructures&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;will be passed on to household and business consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dominion projects that grid investments, plus the new projects, will raise average utility bills for Virginia customers from around $133 a month to $174 over 15 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, electricity demand by power data centers is projected to increase by 13% to 15%, compounded annually through 2030, a shortage that is already delaying new centers by two to six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/electric-grid-crisis-biden-administration-climate-policy-energy-artificial-intelligence-cfc10b68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Mark Christie<\/a>&nbsp;warned last month, \u201cThe problem is that utilities are rapidly retiring fossil-fuel and nuclear plants. We are subtracting dispatchable [fossil fuel] resources at a pace that\u2019s not sustainable, and we can\u2019t build dispatchable resources to replace the dispatchable resources we\u2019re shutting down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We don\u2019t have to rely on supersmart AI to warn us that this is really dumb policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big, artificial intelligence-related companies are soon coming to realize that net-zero emissions plans to kill and replace fossil energy with wind and solar is a dumb notion that will leave them and American power consumers competing in the dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":326860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691822666,691819566,691818118,691818154],"class_list":{"0":"post-326856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","9":"tag-chatgpt","10":"tag-green-energy","11":"tag-net-zero","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/00AI_shutterstock_1722492775-scaled-1.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1n1S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":280966,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=280966","url_meta":{"origin":326856,"position":0},"title":"The AI Revolution Is Bad News for Net Zero","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"28\/09\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. 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