Berkeley Lab: Data Centers Could Need 12% of US Power by 2028
Granholm: Increasing Demand Can be Met with Clean Power
By 2028, energy use at U.S. data centers could rise to 6.7 to 12% of all energy demand nationwide, topping out at 580 TWh, according to Berkeley Lab researchers. | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dec 22, 2024
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Data centers’ voracious appetite for electricity could spike more than threefold over the next four years, rising from 4.4% of U.S. power demand in 2023 to as high as 12% in 2028, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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