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According to Barclays Research, data centres account for 3.5% of electricity consumption in the US today, but that figure could rise to more than 9% by the end of the decade.

From BBC

Other limitations are that the study could not account for heart damage after the six-month follow-up and did not look at other factors like survival or quality of life.

The LAO said their outlook accounts for higher costs to fight wildfires, but doesn’t calculate in other unanticipated disasters, such as earthquakes or another pandemic.

It will take at least $20,000 just to do that, and that’s not accounting for his nearly entire loss of this year’s harvest, he said.

The incentives would apply in single-family zones only if a property is owned by a public agency or a faith-based organization, which accounts for just a sliver of the city’s single-family lots.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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