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By the end of May 2025, solar capacity had reached 1.08 TW (1,080 GW), up 56.9% year on year.

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[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They need it to run those garish lights all over every building in the cities.

[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Ah but at least those garish lights are all LEDs these days with energy usage a fraction of what it would’ve been in times gone by

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Fair point, but there's so many more of them.

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Engineer: wow, these new led lights will use a tenth of the electricity our old lights used!

Boss: So you're saying we can use ten times as many lights then?

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