Tag: electricity demand
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Coal Consumption in Europe at Scale: A Continent in Managed Decline
Coal consumption in Europe is falling rapidly in both absolute and relative terms, but it remains highly concentrated in a few countries and still plays a strategic—if diminishing—role in the continent’s energy system. The European Union’s coal story is, above all, a story of scale and decline. At its peak around the late 1990s and…
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The Hidden Energy Crisis Behind Artificial Intelligence’s Digital Revolution
The digital revolution that has transformed every aspect of modern life comes with an invisible but enormous cost: energy. Behind every Google search, Netflix stream, and ChatGPT query lies a vast network of warehouses filled with humming servers that collectively consume more electricity than entire nations. As artificial intelligence reshapes our technological landscape, these data…