{"id":403261,"date":"2025-09-19T17:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=403261"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:58:19","slug":"a-i-could-vaporize-green-energy-hallucination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=403261","title":{"rendered":"A.I. could vaporize green energy hallucination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"403263\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=403263\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQNnRB_WKRErkZxPVVqxtmR-tMB-iSng49apc0cqwD0chgSuAOayMfuYYSCtPkMOYN13rtnZtI0xUT5qpZIjuIoVXf1do-8XUa_LniZj4iMMaGq8VFh7bc0yqULzIAxg7SU0cBU1uuDS5yXSf9-wRq4fDPhtoQ.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,1280\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQNnRB_WKRErkZxPVVqxtmR-tMB-iSng49apc0cqwD0chgSuAOayMfuYYSCtPkMOYN13rtnZtI0xUT5qpZIjuIoVXf1do-8XUa_LniZj4iMMaGq8VFh7bc0yqULzIAxg7SU0cBU1uuDS5yXSf9-wRq4fDPhtoQ.jpeg?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQNnRB_WKRErkZxPVVqxtmR-tMB-iSng49apc0cqwD0chgSuAOayMfuYYSCtPkMOYN13rtnZtI0xUT5qpZIjuIoVXf1do-8XUa_LniZj4iMMaGq8VFh7bc0yqULzIAxg7SU0cBU1uuDS5yXSf9-wRq4fDPhtoQ.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" 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\/2025\/09\/17\/a-i-could-vaporize-green-energy-hallucination\/\">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\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Massive AI Center Requirements Could Bring a Harsh Reality to Green Energy Platitudes and Hallucinations&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t place your bets on a green energy cartel fighting climate change with subsidies for anemic and intermittent windmills and sunbeams, winning out over AI data center pragmatists willing to commit enormous expenditures essential for colossal expansion of weather-independent 24\/7 power in competition with China\u2019s dominance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Electrical power demands to support proposed new data centers will compete head-on with growing baseload grid needs and pricing budgets of current domestic and business users, including residential air conditioning, electric vehicle recharging, and industrial manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/top-content\/artificial-intelligence\/ai-and-energy-transformation\/how-ai-affects-power-demand\/\">warned by Joe Bowring,<\/a>&nbsp;president of Monitoring Analytics, the independent watchdog for PJM Interconnection, the nation\u2019s largest grid operator and a hub for new data centers, \u201cthere is simply no new capacity to meet new loads\u201d from AI \u201chyper-scalers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blame much of this energy paucity on Biden administration EPA rules forcing premature shutdowns of coal plants along with federal and state renewable mandates making it inordinately expensive to build new natural gas plants in favor of subsidizing costly solar and wind power, which has additionally undercut nuclear cost competitiveness in wholesale markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prompted in part by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/donald-trump-ai-order-deregulation-china-energy-business-immigration-5ccb56cf?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAhHKLD4kDd-LLWe5cEbU6kjBRk6N8DlShVTJitQu42iCbcaSUg0G0OQZ2FWoag%3D&amp;gaa_ts=68c08855&amp;gaa_sig=Qp7vwhp4MwOY2jK2s5tkLZAfjA6wNmWq20zMIoEKTCGg5BmfsNaDeOWkFHrD-LXosl3EUi6ifGzWDbOFRpcGNw%3D%3D\">concerns that China will overtake America<\/a>&nbsp;in global AI military and economic leadership, the Trump administration proposes to bulldoze feckless Obama- and Biden-era green energy-hyped climate alarm-premised policy impediments to release growing backlogs of investment-backed data center proposals by reforming \u201cpower markets to align financial incentives with the goal of grid stability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Included are recommendations by the Federal Trade Commission to drop investigations that began under Biden Chair Lina Khan, which \u201cadvance theories of liability that unduly burden AI innovation\u201d and have federal agencies establish exclusions under the National Environmental Policy Act for data centers that reduce project permitting delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump White House will also seek friendly congressional legislation to help prevent project delays and plan cancellations caused by endless environmental litigation and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/boards-policy-regulation\/openai-executives-have-discussed-accusing-microsoft-anticompetitive-behavior-wsj-2025-06-16\/\">&nbsp;antitrust conflicts<\/a>&nbsp;between OpenAI and Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corporate data center&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/donald-trump-ai-order-deregulation-china-energy-business-immigration-5ccb56cf?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAhHKLD4kDd-LLWe5cEbU6kjBRk6N8DlShVTJitQu42iCbcaSUg0G0OQZ2FWoag%3D&amp;gaa_ts=68c08855&amp;gaa_sig=Qp7vwhp4MwOY2jK2s5tkLZAfjA6wNmWq20zMIoEKTCGg5BmfsNaDeOWkFHrD-LXosl3EUi6ifGzWDbOFRpcGNw%3D%3D\">competition is already enormous<\/a>, with Alphabet planning to spend some $75 billion this year, Meta investing between $64 billion and $72 billion, and OpenAI working with SoftBank and others on plans for a $500 billion project in the next four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although it\u2019s presently impossible to scale the amount of electricity needed to power America\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/tech-ai-spending-company-valuations-7b92104b?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">artificial-intelligence race<\/a>, collective requests equal or surpass existing demands of many regional service baseload utility capacities by multiples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American Electric Power (AEP), a big utility serving 11 U.S. states, sees an increase equivalent of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/data-centers-that-dont-exist-yet-are-already-haunting-the-grid-c5ec7620?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjdTT4VceEQmEbgBzQXSgwVQeC94RM1DcMRE5yDs9cR_mEBeJ_X_T0B-p-B_i8%3D&amp;gaa_ts=68c0898b&amp;gaa_sig=gdOl6MGeP87Lhy20bDgddSOk4nqoIN3pD-E0pVGxQlED8DmH3j8t0F1Ovi6Sm8IINFzA1X0RWUMT_vv6lMsyIA%3D%3D\">enough to power at least 48 million homes<\/a>, while Sempra\u2019s Texas utility Oncor, with a previous average data center interconnect request rate which required less than 100 megawatts of electricity, is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/data-centers-that-dont-exist-yet-are-already-haunting-the-grid-c5ec7620?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjdTT4VceEQmEbgBzQXSgwVQeC94RM1DcMRE5yDs9cR_mEBeJ_X_T0B-p-B_i8%3D&amp;gaa_ts=68c0898b&amp;gaa_sig=gdOl6MGeP87Lhy20bDgddSOk4nqoIN3pD-E0pVGxQlED8DmH3j8t0F1Ovi6Sm8IINFzA1X0RWUMT_vv6lMsyIA%3D%3D\">now up closer to 700 megawatts<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oncor, which serves a swath of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including major markets for data centers and highly electrified West Texas oil field operations, had 552 requests from large customers in its queue by the end of June, up 30% from the end of March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together, American Electric Power and Oncor have received requests to connect data centers requiring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/data-centers-that-dont-exist-yet-are-already-haunting-the-grid-c5ec7620?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjdTT4VceEQmEbgBzQXSgwVQeC94RM1DcMRE5yDs9cR_mEBeJ_X_T0B-p-B_i8%3D&amp;gaa_ts=68c0898b&amp;gaa_sig=gdOl6MGeP87Lhy20bDgddSOk4nqoIN3pD-E0pVGxQlED8DmH3j8t0F1Ovi6Sm8IINFzA1X0RWUMT_vv6lMsyIA%3D%3D\">nearly 400 gigawatts of electricity<\/a>, amounting to more than half of the demand in the lower 48 states on two hot July days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CenterPoint Energy, a utility serving the Houston area, including a large industrial and medical base, has seen a huge electricity demand increase with interconnection requests for about 53 gigawatts of power, roughly 25 gigawatts of which are from data centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another 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 is 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 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\">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\">Utility companies face realities that not all these requests will pan out, thereby running the risk that building too many power plants or transmission lines will leave other customers getting stuck with paying the tabs for those infrastructure costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Labor Department data, electricity prices across the country increased a whopping 5.5% over the past year,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/your-electric-bill-is-rising-faster-than-inflation-heres-why-139b5d12?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outpacing inflation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whereas U.S. electricity demand was flat for two decades until around 2020, its current rise of about 2% a year is largely attributable to AI operating power demands, which can cause a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/google-wants-you-to-know-the-environmental-cost-of-quizzing-its-ai-143cfe19?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">search on a generative AI platform<\/a>&nbsp;like ChatGPT to use&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>, at least 10 times the amount of energy as a Google search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, as electricity demand by power data centers is projected to increase by 13% to 15%, compounded annually through 2030, an energy shortage 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;has warned, \u201cThe problem is that utilities are rapidly retiring fossil-fuel and nuclear plants. 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