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[–] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

France's energy supply is almost entirely nuclear, which isn't the easiest to ramp up and down on a minute-by-minute basis.

All electricity has some GHG footprint, and not using that electricity by definition has a lower GHG footprint. Plus, AC creates a heat island effect that forces other city occupants to also install AC, making the outside increasingly miserable over time.