Curiously, TFA doesn't raise the question of why demand surged, it spends its 8 microparagraphs only praising solar.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it has some thing to do with those data centers and LLM stuff.

anovikov 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So the increase was 3.1% and it was "fourth largest in the last decade", which means, "barely above average growth rate". Considering that economy growth rate was the fastest in a decade except 2021 which was a covid recovery year, it doesn't really show anything abnormal at all.

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MonkeyClub an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Granted, that wee bit 3.1% increase corresponds to an extra 135 TWh of demand.

T for tera. The mind boggles.

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hackable_sand 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

All that work and we still have a broken economy, go figure.

	▲	xeromal an hour ago \| parent [-]
		What's broken about it?

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MonkeyClub 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Funny, I was thinking the same thing.

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jennyholzer4 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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