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How AI and cloud computing may delay the transition to clean energy

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A spike in electricity demand from big data providers is raising a worrying possibility for the world's climate.

Utilities, power regulators and researchers in a half-dozen countries told Reuters the surge in power demand is being met in the near-term by fossil fuels like natural gas, and even coal.

The outlook poses a new obstacle to world governments, now gathered at the UN ’s annual climate conference in Baku .

In Poland , data centers will need to run at least partially off baseload sources like coal because of the still-low volume of renewables in the country.

Microsoft this year announced plans to expand data-center capacity with a 3.2 billion euro ( $3.38 billion ) investment, near the 400-meter -deep Hambach coal mine.

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