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Data Centers Could Be 33% Of Commercial Building Electricity Use By 2050: EIA
Data Centers Could Be 33% Of Commercial Building Electricity Use By 2050: EIA
By Diana DiGangi of UtilityDive
The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that data centers will “increasingly skew more energy intensive” and that electricity consumed by them will increase across all commercial building stock, with their servers growing to make up an estimated 22% to 33% of commercial building electricity use by 2050, according to an April report.
In its 2026 Annual Energy Outlook, EIA modeled various scenarios to explore how much data centers might drive demand in the medium...
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