Thank you to Laura Llinares, Mary Baldwin Hughes, Vimal Kumar, and Sunil Thaha for their significant contributions to this blog post and the Kepler project. Data centers accounted for 1.5% of global electricity demand in 2024, which is projected to double to around 945 TWh by 2030, driven in part by rapid growth in AI workloads according to the International Energy Agency’s “Energy and AI” report ...