ლონდონში დაფუძნებული არაკომერციული ორგანიზაციის, Energy Institute-ის ახალი სტატისტიკური მიმოხილვის თანახმად, ენერგომომარაგების დონე სულ უფრო და უფრო მაღლა ადის. რასაკვირველია, ამ ყველაფერთან ერთად ემისიებიც იზრდება.

2025 წელს მსოფლიოს ჯამური ემისიების 47% ჩრდილოეთ ამერიკამ გამოიწვია, უმეტესწილად აშშ-მა. ამის უდიდესი

Much of that was fueled by outsize demand for data centers: as OilPrice.com analyst Robert Rapier notes, the US accounted for 40 percent of global data center electricity consumption, indicative of the impact the country’s AI boom is having on global emissions overall.

Though the US also added some renewable energy — solar capacity alone grew by over 28 percent compared to the previous year — that doesn’t automatically mean dirty, non-renewable energy shrank. As Rapier observes, much of North America’s emissions growth was led specifically by the rising coal-based emissions in the US, which grew by 13 percent.

“Many people assume that if solar and wind are growing quickly, fossil fuels must be shrinking,” Rapier writes. “That is not what the data show. In a growing energy system, both can happen at once. Renewables can rise sharply, while fossil fuel use also rises.”

Part of this is the fact that renewable energy has not grown fast enough to offset other energy sources.

As Rapier obverses, “solar certainly has not failed. But clean energy growth has to be large enough to meet new demand while also displacing existing fossil fuel consumption. In 2025, that did not happen.”