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Solar crushed 2024, but emissions were up as industry used more natural gas


Solar and wind together now represent nearly a quarter of electricity demand and nearly 10% of all energy consumption in the U.S.

The U.S. invested a record-breaking $338 billion in the energy transition last year, according to a new report, but it wasn’t quite enough to lessen the country’s overall carbon emissions. Which technology supplies that electricity could determine the country’s impact on climate change for decades to come. Tech companies have been investing in massive new data centers to power cloud operations and fuel their AI ambitions.

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