Green(er) hosting and data centers global overview. Supporting evidence listed.
- Jan 2026
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app.greenweb.org app.greenweb.org
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danwang.co danwang.co
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China’s capacity, which was one-third US levels in 2000 and more than two-and-a-half times US levels in 2024. Beijing is building so much solar, coal, and nuclear to make sure that no data center shall be in want. Though the US has done a superb job building data centers, it hasn’t prepared enough for other bottlenecks. Especially not as Trump’s dislike of wind turbines has removed this source of growth. Speaking of Trump’s whimsy, he has also been generous with selling close-to-leading chips to Beijing. That’s another reason that data centers might not represent a US advantage for long.
China is increasing power generation (renewables and nuclear) to a volume that supports compute and data centers. The US in comparison is not growing in generation. Interesting stats on generation here
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www.nrc.nl www.nrc.nl
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Van de circa 160 datacenters die zouden moeten rapporteren, stuurden 104 daadwerkelijk iets naar de RVO, telde Leitmotiv. 27 datacenters lieten daarbij de belangrijkste velden voor stroom- en waterverbruik leeg. Die waren, op drie na, allemaal in Amerikaanse handen. Ook Microsoft en Google, die tot de grootste stroomverbruikers in Nederland behoren, rapporteerden niet.
160 datacenters in NL have reporting req. 104 did, and 27 left out the key information. Of those 27, 24 were of US entities, incl the biggest users Google and MS
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et Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) becijferde onlangs dat het totale stroomverbruik van datacenters in 2024 steeg naar ruim 5.000 gigawattuur, 4,5 procent van het totale stroomverbruik van Nederland – net zoveel als het verbruik van 2 miljoen huishoudens. En dat is buiten alle lopende aanvragen voor stroomaansluitingen gerekend. De netbeheerders, die deze aanvragen kennen, schrijven in hun meest recente toekomstscenario dat het stroomverbruik van datacenters over vijf jaar van 5 naar 15 procent van het totaal in Nederland zal zijn gegroeid.
data center energy usage in 2024 4.5% of national usage, equiv to 2M householdes (out of 8M), or 25% of household usage. Network maintainers est growth to 15% of national usage within 5 years.
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- Jul 2025
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paulkedrosky.com paulkedrosky.com
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https://web.archive.org/web/20250719082633/https://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/ by Paul Kedrosky On the enormous capital expenditures for AI related data centers, at the level of 2% US GDP. A volume big enough to influence overall economy / hide other currents in economy.
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- Nov 2024
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techpolicy.press techpolicy.press
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data center usage of water and electricity for cooling are inversely connected. Either huge amounts of water, or huge amounts of electricity. Beware if plans are focused on just one of the two.
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