AI, which proponents say is humanity's future, is keeping the power infrastructure in the United States woefully in the past., major coal producers including AlliantEnergy have already moved sustainability goals by at least a few years. Electric utility company FirstEnergy also scrapped its 2030 goals entirely in February over demand concerns,
The moving of goalposts comes as a big win for the coal industry — and a loss to national and global climate initiatives, for whichis an essential and urgent goal. It also punctuates the desperation with which the US is trying to stay ahead in the ongoing AI race against international rivals.Keeping the Factory Lights Onwater-guzzling, the consultancy firm Grid Strategies predicts a nationwide "demand growth of 4.7 percent over the next five years.
Rest assured, those who have something to gain from the shift seem absolutely thrilled at the prospect that AI is the coal industry's knight in sooty, "You can't replace the fossil plants fast enough to meet the demand," Alliance Resource Partners CEO Joe Craft, whose company holds rank as one of the US' top coal producers, told the"We need more energy, not less," added Indiana governor Eric Holcomb. "We absolutely as Americans," he continued, "can't afford to lose the AI war."
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