Heatwave is currently ravaging America with temperatures said to be rising past 113 Degrees Celsius and threatening lives.
Report reaching us at Greenbarge Reporters online newspaper said that the potentially deadly and historic heat dome has led the government to ask families to use less electricity to avoid blackouts.
The report said that worse hit are the eastern and midwestern states which have been trapped under the heat dome.
It said that the heatwave itself bears the fingerprints of the fossil fuel economy.
A new scientific study released this week found that record humid-heat levels would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change.
Report quoted experts as saying that in 27 states utility companies can legally shut off a family’s electricity due to unpaid bills, adding that electric bills are projected to run 8.5 percent higher than last summer.
It said that more families would be forced to choose between keeping the power on and putting food on the table.
According to the report, electricity demand is growing 12 times faster than it was five years ago, driven almost entirely by data centers fed by fossil fueled energy sources.
An independent market monitor reports that data centres are the prime reason for tight supply and soaring electricity bills across the region, driving 63 percent of the recent capacity price increases.
Campaigns Manager, Candice Fortin, said: “No American should lose their life over an electric bill. Losing air conditioning in this heat isn’t an inconvenience – it’s life-threatening. Air conditioning in a dangerous heatwave is what keeps elderly people, pregnant women and young children out of the emergency room, and higher use during summer heatwaves is something every utility plans for. Yet ordinary households are once again paying the highest price for a crisis they didn’t cause.
“The reason the grid has so little headroom is that data aere consuming electricity at a scale it wasn’t built for, around the clock, every day of the year. And worse: fed by fossil fueled energy sources that make heatwaves more frequent and more deadly.
“350.org is calling for a moratorium on new data centre construction, to give citizens and their elected representatives time to put democratic rules in place to manage their impact on our energy, water and land. Every state should also ban utility shutoffs during extreme heat. “That’s an emergency measure to stop more Americans from suffering.
“Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta raked in net profits of over $80 billion in the first three months of 2026 alone. In fact, investor-owned utilities kept on average a profit of 14.6 cents on every dollar they collected from ratepayers.They can afford to wait while communities catch up.
“The heatwave bearing down on 160 million Americans right now is a preview of every summer to come. Our leaders must choose who they will protect: tech companies and investor-owned utilities, or people. Access to clean, affordable energy is a right, not a privilege. Real independence means no American is ever again forced to choose between a power bill they can’t afford and heat they can’t survive.”
Experts said that such a temperature has never been recorded naturally on Earth and that the highest reliably measured air temperature is about 56.7°C (134°F).
They said that human survival outdoors under such weather would be impossible as the body cannot regulate its temperature, leading to rapid heat stroke and death within minutes.
“It’s worth noting that 113°C is above the boiling point of water at high altitudes and only slightly above the normal boiling point of water (100°C at sea level). Such an air temperature would indicate an environment fundamentally different from Earth’s current climate and would likely make large regions uninhabitable.”
