The report finds that data centers consumed about 4.4% of total U.S. electricity in 2023 and are expected to consume approximately 6.7 to 12% of total U.S. electricity by 2028. The report indicates that total data center electricity usage climbed from 58 TWh in 2014 to 176 TWh in 2023 and estimates an increase between 325 to 580 TWh by 2028.
I see a lot of people arguing about datacenters and their resource consumption. So i think it is good to have actual numbers on how much resources are being consumed. This post only includes energy consumption because i’m too lazy to look up water consumption.
“Oh no the Ai assholes outbid the state gov and we had to put our health and courts data on bluehost and it died in a fire and now manson is gonna go free” is how that goes.
Make sure in your planning to require state and muni govs to build and run their own DCs or we’re in for a crunch. Their habitual outsourcing is gonna suck soon.