US power use to reach record highs in 2025 and 2026, EIA says

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2. U.S. power use forecast: From '24 to '25: +2.3%, From '25 to '26: +2.7%

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This comes to 5.1% in just 2 years (4097 to 4305 billion KWH).

Considering that it was almost flat for 16 years (2023 was about the same as 2007) this is quite a shock to the system.

U.S. CO2 emissions actual/forecast (in million metric tons)
2023: 4800
2024: 4790
2025: 4880
2026: 4840

Besides the above woke subject, the report also has a lot of emphasis on what they call renewables, another woke subject. They seem to have not gotten the memo that tracking emissions, and renewables, are not part of warrior culture.

The Reuters link is paywalled, but the archive is at: https://archive.ph/xoocA

From the source (the same link is also in the OP): https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/
Full EIA report: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/pdf/steo_full.pdf

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Not from the article or the source, but the topic reminds me:
One data center planned for Wyoming will initially use 7.2 Times what all the state's homes use, and can scale up to 40 times
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1127&pid=184325