{"id":73,"date":"2026-07-14T05:07:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/?p=73"},"modified":"2026-07-14T05:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:17:43","slug":"united-states-accounts-for-50-of-worlds-increase-in-emissions-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/united-states-accounts-for-50-of-worlds-increase-in-emissions-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"United States accounts for 50% of world&#8217;s increase in emissions last year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An incredibly thorough report by the <strong>Energy Institute<\/strong> reveals that despite a 28% surge in domestic solar capacity, clean energy was unable to keep up with skyrocketing data center power demand, causing <strong>U.S. coal-related emissions to jump by 13%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report also reveals that the U.S. uses about <strong>40% of the world&#8217;s data center electricity consumption<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energyinst.org\/statistical-review\">See the report on the Energy Institute website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. is burning 13% more coal to keep up with AI-related data center electricity demand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[44,16,48,49],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-news","category-bad-stuff","tag-data-center","tag-emissions","tag-energy-institute","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}