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Energy used in private AC is very small fraction of total bill and has no meaningful effect on the climate. Compare with data centers running entirely off grid
by ponector 1y ago
Energy used in private AC is very small fraction of total bill and has no meaningful effect on the climate.
Compare with data centers running entirely off grid, powered by tens of massive gas generators.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoYou're looking at the figures today, not the figures when every house in the country has to install it.
- ponector 1y agoToday residential use amounts of 15% energy used in USA, and 40% of electricity use. In Florida, HVAC accounts to 40% of energy bill of the household. 40% of 15% is not that much, even if everyone is using AC.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoThat seems like a huge amount of additional energy usage that's going to further exacerbate the problem, which is the position I took originally. Just because you can make it look small by focusing on the percentage doesn't change that. At the end of the day it means, if we accept these numbers, that the total national energy usage would go up by around 7%. That then gets multiplied across France Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, the UK & Ireland etc., to the point that the total power usage is as if we suddenly had another entire country. And keep in mind while considering any of these numbers that our current 100% is already much higher than where we need to be at to avoid widespread ecological disasters. We need to be reducing our usage not saying "well it's only a few percent more."