Something's gotta power all those new AI data centers with massive capacity and it isn't wind and solar.

The Ember 2026 report[0] shows that 75% of new power generation in 2025 was from solar. Solar + wind were 99% of new generation capacity. Fossil fuel generation dropped for one of the first times ever (historical reductions were typically due to structural reasons like COVID or recession). In a first, renewable sources made more for the planet than coal.

Renewables are absolutely going to be powering the future. Recent events have done nothing but accelerate the transition as countries are going to run to reduce their petroleum dependencies.

[0] https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-...

Actually lately it's been Hydro and Solar.[0] A little of natural gas, and thankfully a ton less coal.

[0] - https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/soaring-solar-and-a-...

Leveling up civilization and moving up the tech tree requires orders of magnitude more energy.

It's unlikely to be oil either. Sometimes it's natural gas.

It really ought to be solar+batteries. It'd be slightly more expensive to build up-front than oil-based solutions, but probably not much and the companies building these data centers have the money to pay for that.

not in a petrostate anyways