But if we’re not careful, we’re going to derail the whole idea before it has a chance to deliver real benefits. Google’s electricity demand is skyrocketingWe got two big pieces of energy news from Google this week. The company announced that it’s signed an agreement to purchase electricity from a fusion company’s forthcoming first power plant. Google also released its latest environmental report, which shows that its energy use from data centers has doubled since 2020. Of course, we don’t know exactly how much of this pollution is attributable to AI because Google doesn’t break that out.