Booming energy demand with AI, US electricity grid collapsing. Estimates for energy needs over the next five years have been doubled amid AI's hunger for electricity and the Biden administration's push to bring manufacturing back to the United States.
A mix that is causing an explosion in demand just as more and more electricity is needed to charge electric cars and power household appliances. The risk, reports the Washington Post, is that of a systemic crisis that could endanger energy supplies. It is also threatening the transition to clean energy.