energy-consuming
Example Sentences
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He dismisses regulation as a constraint on US competitiveness with China, even as more and more Americans come out angrily against AI and the huge energy-consuming data centers needed to power it.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
They plunged by 250 million barrels over March and April, according to the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based club of energy-consuming nations.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
This outer train of reactors would operate at generally cooler temperatures and would be used to evacuate oxygen from the hotter inner train, without the need for energy-consuming mechanical pumps.
From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2023
The relationship between black holes and accretion disks is one of the most energy-consuming processes in the universe, right up there with gamma-ray bursts, in which black holes devour entire stars, Kaaz said.
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2023
No cars to catch, no matinees, no city streets, none of the teeming, empty, energy-consuming occupations of the city child.
From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna