A recent report produced by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), which outlines the energy use of data centers from 2014 to 2028, estimates that data center load growth has tripled over the past decade and is projected to double or triple by 2028.
A recent report produced by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), which outlines the energy use of data centers from 2014 to 2028, estimates that data center load growth has tripled over the past decade and is projected to double or triple by 2028.
The 2024 Report on U.S. Data Center Energy Use, which was announced by the U.S. Department of Energy on Dec. 20, also found that U.S. electricity demand is projected to account for data center expansion and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) applications, domestic manufacturing growth, and electrification of different industries.
“There’s so much difference in the industry between when we looked at it in 2016 and when we look at it now,” said the report’s lead researcher, Arman Shehabi, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Energy Technologies Area. “By showing what the energy use is and, more importantly, what’s causing the growth in energy use, it helps us think about what opportunities there are for efficiencies.”
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