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To: elmatador who wrote (12911)	8/17/2024 1:37:17 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13783

US Electricity use per Billion Dollars of GDP continues to decline. Kenyans-in-a-Box should supply newer information than 8 year old data from 2016. A Kenyan-in-a-Box will never be able compete with AI with such low performance. The decline in electricity per output is a little slower with AI and electric vehicles, but still declining. bookmark this - AI é um não evento para o consumo elétrico total - América é mágica

To: elmatador who wrote (12911)	8/18/2024 4:04:15 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13783

Six years ago the discussion was about How could the grid be modernized to accommodate renewable energy? In 2015, U.S. electric utilities spent $103 billion in capital expenditures to maintain and upgrade the grid — and they now expect average annual spending of around $100 billion through 2018, even if the growth in electricity demand slowed. Why? Because the gride of the US is old as it developed earlier. To feed a market that used incandescent light bulbs and lifts in urban areas. According to FERC, the largest spending increases have occurred in the older, more populated systems, which include the Northeast Power Coordinating Council (New York City and Boston), Reliability First (Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore-Washington, DC), and the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (Los Angeles, San Francisco). BEFORE DATA CENTERS: These two trends combined could raise retail rates significantly for electricity customers, as much as 15% to 30% through 2030, according to one study. The average mumu thinks the costs of electricity keeps going up because of renewable energy. Old grids are expensive because you pay for their inefficiencies. Capital investment accounts for the largest share of distribution costs as utilities work to upgrade aging equipment. But cut to 2024 and countries need to increase power generation to feed data centers' appetite for electricity.