Imagine if we had not had any AI, we could be replacing bad energy sources and slowing down climate change. Instead, we get fancy text prediction and overall more famines and destruction. Yay....
Imagine if we had not had any AI, we could be replacing bad energy sources and slowing down climate change. Instead, we get fancy text prediction and overall more famines and destruction. Yay....
The world's a downer, I get it and of course you're kind of correct. But let's still try to celebrate the small wins we do get! Maybe then we can have the energy to fight on until the next small...
The world's a downer, I get it and of course you're kind of correct.
But let's still try to celebrate the small wins we do get!
Maybe then we can have the energy to fight on until the next small win.
Eh probably not. Most of the new solar installations are being built out because of new demand. If that demand wasn't there, it wouldn't have been built out nearly as quickly. We'd still get some...
Eh probably not. Most of the new solar installations are being built out because of new demand. If that demand wasn't there, it wouldn't have been built out nearly as quickly. We'd still get some solar, but not as much as if there wasn't so much demand for more electricity.
Overall, we're still worse off, but it's not entirely a total negative. And the good news is if the ai bubble ever pops and the demand goes away, we'll have a bunch of new renewable capacity already built out, sort of like how we had oodles of dark fiber already in the ground ready to be lit in the early 2010s due to the over buildout from the dot com boom in the late 90s.
Well the video says that total fossil fuel use declined slightly in 2025. The solar + other renewables growth was "more than enough to make up" (2:10) for the increase in demand (3:00), he says....
Well the video says that total fossil fuel use declined slightly in 2025. The solar + other renewables growth was "more than enough to make up" (2:10) for the increase in demand (3:00), he says. So for emissions purposes we're not worse off, it's a small positive.
The trend in that part of the video looks really good. He thinks that next year there will be high electricity demand due to El Nino/nina? But even with an above-average warm year, with above-average demand, at the rate clean energy is increasing, it would still cover most or possibly all of the demand increase unless it was a pretty big outlier like 2021 (which was for pandemic reasons).
idk about AI itself being a net positive or negative, I don't care about it
Found this video on youtube talking about solar energy. It's getting cheaper and renewables have covered all growth from AI in 2025. That's good
Imagine if we had not had any AI, we could be replacing bad energy sources and slowing down climate change. Instead, we get fancy text prediction and overall more famines and destruction. Yay....
The world's a downer, I get it and of course you're kind of correct.
But let's still try to celebrate the small wins we do get!
Maybe then we can have the energy to fight on until the next small win.
Thanks for posting @turnipostrophe
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Eh probably not. Most of the new solar installations are being built out because of new demand. If that demand wasn't there, it wouldn't have been built out nearly as quickly. We'd still get some solar, but not as much as if there wasn't so much demand for more electricity.
Overall, we're still worse off, but it's not entirely a total negative. And the good news is if the ai bubble ever pops and the demand goes away, we'll have a bunch of new renewable capacity already built out, sort of like how we had oodles of dark fiber already in the ground ready to be lit in the early 2010s due to the over buildout from the dot com boom in the late 90s.
Well the video says that total fossil fuel use declined slightly in 2025. The solar + other renewables growth was "more than enough to make up" (2:10) for the increase in demand (3:00), he says. So for emissions purposes we're not worse off, it's a small positive.
The trend in that part of the video looks really good. He thinks that next year there will be high electricity demand due to El Nino/nina? But even with an above-average warm year, with above-average demand, at the rate clean energy is increasing, it would still cover most or possibly all of the demand increase unless it was a pretty big outlier like 2021 (which was for pandemic reasons).
idk about AI itself being a net positive or negative, I don't care about it
It's a good video and also on Nebula
https://nebula.tv/videos/simonclark-the-best-climate-news-all-year