Sierra Club warns US power sector emissions could rise 42% by 2030
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A new analysis finds AI data center expansion could wipe out 15 years of greenhouse gas reductions from electricity generation. The US power sector may be on course to undo a decade and a half of hard-won emissions progress, and the culprit is the electricity appetite of artificial intelligence. A new Sierra Club analysis projects that carbon dioxide emissions from US electricity generation could climb 618 million tons by 2030, a 42% increase over 2025 levels that would push total power-sector CO2 to approximately 2.1 billion metric tons.
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