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Visualizing Data Center Power Surge Before White House Meets With Big Tech
Visualizing Data Center Power Surge Before White House Meets With Big Tech
Ahead of tomorrow's White House meeting, where representatives from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI are expected to pledge that their data-center buildouts will not drive higher power bills for households near those facilities, UBS analyst Arend Kapteyn has published a new note featuring a chart of the day that visualizes the rapid growth in data center power demand on the grid.
After staying mostly flat for years, data center electricity demand has been surging since 2017,...
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