Data Centers now account for ~7% of US power demand

The central projection for electricity demand from data centres remains close to the trajectory set out in the IEA’s 2025 report. Our updated projections see electricity consumption from data centres roughly doubling from 485 TWh in 2025 to 950 TWh in 2030, accounting for around 3% of global electricity demand by that date. Electricity consumption from AI-focused data centres grows much faster than overall data centre electricity consumption, tripling in this period. Bottlenecks across the value chain, however, are reducing the likelihood of more aggressive near-term scenarios, despite booming investment and surging project pipelines. The mid- to longer-term outlook for data centre electricity demand sees a possible upside. Investments in relieving bottlenecks across energy equipment and chip manufacturing, and rapid uptake of energy-intensive use cases of AI, raise the prospect that there could be an even higher upside case after 2030. The IEA will continue to update its projections regularly.

The @iea.org has, rightly, stopped downplaying data centre growth by presenting as a "small percentage" of total power demand growth.

By 2030, power consumption from 'AI data centers' will TRIPLE, in their 'base' scenario.

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We're now soliciting proposals for a symposium + book project, with draft abstracts due June 19th for consideration. recarbonization.cargo.site

Windmills. Still keeping Trump up at night.

At a time when the science is clear, and action is overdue, the Trump administration’s STOMP initiative—aimed at measuring and removing microplastics from the human body—is a convenient distraction that delays real action.

Trump's EPA Wants to Count Microplastics While Corporations Keep Dumping Them | Common Dreams ​Committing $144 million to study microplastics while subsidizing fossil fuels by nearly $31 billion a year is like trying to clean up an oil spill with a spoon while the tanker is still spewing.

We do not need more studies to understand microplastics in our bodies. We need policies that prevent them from getting there in the first place.

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We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"Just as we make ourselves more energy-secure by switching from fossil fuels to renewables, we make ourselves more food-secure by switching from animals to plants." - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Never Let a War Go to Waste Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

We're tracing U.S. fossil fascism in a quick 3-part @drilledmedia.bsky.social miniseries (ep 2 drops tomorrow), from WWI to the Red Line Agreement to now. Important context for the current moment! drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

How the AI oligarchy devoured America

This story is a part of "Power Hungry," our latest package on the AI oligarchs who are upending communities over their plans for massive data centers across the country.

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Amazon agreed to pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that its data centers in Morrow County contributed to nitrate pollution in community groundwater.

www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2026/03/a...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

"Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice … mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

You should read this in full, but in short, John Roberts and the other Koch plants on the Supreme Court blew up the Supreme Court to protect the fossil fuel industry from climate regulation.

going around tiktok rn

Former Trump attorney John Eastman disbarred in California over 2020 election interference efforts A lawyer for Eastman, who played a key role in devising a plan to overturn the election results, said they will seek review before the U.S. Supreme Court.

This just happened to the person a donor paid as a visiting prof of conservative thought on my campus in 2020: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

NAACP sues Elon Musk's xAI over Memphis data center air pollution Elon Musk, who is the world's richest person, has been counting on the greater Memphis area to serve as the backbone for xAI's buildout.

First, the NAACP challenged xAI's permit to build a giant, nat. gas-burning power plant in Southaven, MS. Then, they sued xAI alleging Clean Air Act violations. Now, Dem. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is investigating the EPA over apparent inattention to xAI's pollution. Bkgd: www.cnbc.com/2026/04/14/e...

California officially disbars John Eastman for his role in trying to overturn 2020 election John Eastman has been disbarred from practicing law in California by the state Supreme Court for his conduct while trying to help Trump overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

John Eastman has been disbarred from practicing law in California by the state Supreme Court for his conduct while trying to help Trump overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

John Eastman disbarred in California over efforts to overturn 2020 election John Eastman, a lawyer who spearheaded efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in President Trump’s favor, has been formally disbarred in California The California S…

John Eastman, a lawyer who spearheaded efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in President Trump’s favor, has been formally disbarred in California

thehill.com John Eastman disbarred in California over efforts to overturn 2020 election

John Eastman disbarred in California over efforts to overturn 2020 election #TheHill

'Denied': Trump lawyer and J6 architect disbarred for good A Politico Senior Affairs writer reports that the California Supreme Court has declined to reverse the disbarment of conservative attorney John Eastman, one of the co-conspirators in President Donald ...

John Eastman appealed has been denied. He has disbarred for good & can never practice law again.
www.alternet.org/john-eastman...

Key Trump lawyer who tried to overturn 2020 election permanently disbarred Eastman has remained active in election denial circles, continuing to push conspiracy theories about voting and elections.

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court permanently disbarred John Eastman — a key architect in President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election — delivering one of the most consequential professional penalties yet for an election denier. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

WOO! John Eastman has been OFFICIALLY DISBARRED.

Lol--can you imagine???

I look forward to the Benson Center's plan for how to hire people who will not be disbarred for their conduct as Visiting Scholar of Conservative Thought.

I also await explanation of how their hiring process does not discriminate on the basis of "political affiliation or political philosophy".

John Eastman just got disbarred 🎉www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/f...

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries

a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries

New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will

- Increase Microsoft's emissions 160%

- Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc...

- Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined

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NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC.

Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

4 million climate jobs in 2024. Growing 3x faster than the broader economy. Energy efficiency alone employs 2.4 million Americans. This isn’t a niche movement — it’s one of the biggest economic stories in the country. #GreenJobs #EcoEconomy

Shaggy & Scooby of scooby-doo hugging in fear

As a UMass grad (Scooby), I mourn the loss of Hampshire College (Shaggy). Not a good sign