The Real Cost of Our Energy Demand | An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet

Electricity demand from artificial intelligence is set to quadruple in a decade, making data centers one of the fastest-growing electricity users on the planet. And many of the communities that use the least energy will suffer the biggest consequences. In this episode of An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau explores the true cost of energy use and new innovations that may help civilization adapt. Whether it’s harvesting tidal energy to power the Orkney Islands or cooling homes in India without air conditioning, we explore how humanity is working to solve the green energy puzzle.

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