We could use AC over here by now, it gets unbearably hot...but man those fuckers use a solid amount of energy and everything is already expensive as hell...so suffering through the heat it is.
We added solar to our house and it cancels out the cost of AC completely with our modern heat pump. And the state and federal government both gave us massive tax breaks and zero interest loans to install the panels and the heat pumps. Our loan payment total is smaller than our old electric bill