Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. In the Annual Energy Outlook 2026 (AEO2026), our long-term outlook, we project electricity consumed by data center servers will increase across the commercial building stock, increasing more in standalone data centers than in all other data center rooms combined. By 2050, server ... [continued]

In one modeled scenario, the Energy Information Administration projects server electricity consumption in 2050 will be more than 16 times what it was in 2020.

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. In the Annual Energy Outlook 2026 (AEO2026), our long-term outlook, we project electricity consumed by…