Ketan Joshi

@ketan@climatejustice.social

Hi, I'm a climate and energy guy

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Ketan Joshi@ketan@climatejustice.social

Siemens just revised its projections for its annual sales of fossil fuel power for data centres upwards by a huge amount.

So now, the annual emissions from yearly additions of new gas are about equivalent to adding one new Pakistan to the world each year.

spglobal.com/energy/en/news-re

Siemens' new data‑centre gas turbines could add 74–188 MtCO2e per year, a range equivalent to the total annual emissions of Pakistan and Chile, shown as colored bars comparing country emissions.
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Ketan Joshi@ketan@climatejustice.social

If all of America's fossil-fuelled data centre power plants go ahead, it'll be the same climate impact as adding another Australia to the world.

environmentalintegrity.org/new

reuters.com/business/energy/ga

Infographic showing planned U.S. data-center power plants could emit 662 million tons of greenhouse gases per year — equal to emissions from 140 million cars driven for one year or the entire nation of Australia (28 million people).
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