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24. No, Europe is not eliminating air conditioning, au contraire

Mon Jun 29, 2026, 02:13 AM

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Europe’s Come-to-AC Moment, The Atlantic, 6/26/26
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/06/europe-air-conditioning/687711/
https://archive.ph/plDti

The shift to AC is happening across Europe, where only about 20 percent of homes currently have air-conditioning. (Compare that with about 90 percent in the United States.) Ownership is skewed toward the south of Europe—about half of homes in Italy and 40 percent in Spain use it, for example. But a survey in Germany found that AC ownership jumped by 6 percent between 2023 and 2024. Even residents of Scandinavia and the Baltic countries are buying air conditioners, Simon Pezzutto, who studies cooling demand at the Institute for Renewable Energy at Eurac Research, in Northern Italy, told me.

European summers are getting brutally hot. So why is air conditioning so rare?, CNN, 6/23/26
https://www.cnn.com/climate/europe-heat-air-conditioning

An IEA report found the number of air conditioning units in the EU is likely to rise to 275 million by 2050 — more than double the 2019 figure.

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