Is Technology the Elephant in the Energy Policy

The ever increasing demand for electricity to power Cloud storage servers and crypto transaction processing added to the increased sales push for EV's now has to meet the major cooling demands of AI computer systems. And this is happening at a time when consumers have already been urged to conserve electricity usage.  And this might not have been disastrous for consumers had not so many states greatly reduced fossil fuel electricity generation in favor of alternatives such as wind power which, as yet, cannot take up the slack.

California is a prime example of problems that can only become more widespread: Sacramento has more than once told EV owners not to charge their vehicles because of electricity shortages and Pacific Gas and Electricity continually runs TV and print ads asking consumers to cut back electricity usage.

The graphic below best illustrates the present situation.