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Google's emissions grew 18% on capital-goods spending for new capacity, and Amazon's cloud arm burned an estimated 78,000 gigawatt-hours in 2025, its largest jump on record.

In the thread, one reader flagged a live preview: Irish datacentres already draw 23% of the country's entire electricity supply, up from just 5% in 2015 - not alarming, another shrugged, since datacentres will simply "ride the transition to green energy for free."

Renault's CEO links a 50% jump in EV orders across France and Germany to fuel-price fears since the Iran war. A charging-network founder in the thread confirms it from the ground: 'the summer has never started off this well.'

The unease underneath: today's pump prices are held down by countries draining strategic reserves, which one commenter warns will eventually run out.