Inside The Data-Center Energy Race With Google And Microsoft

Inside The Data-Center Energy Race With Google And Microsoft

America’s data centers used a whopping 176 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2023, representing 4.4% of the nation’s total power consumption. Those numbers are only going up as AI tools gain popularity, pushing computing loads higher. By 2028, data centers could gobble as much as 580 TWh of power, or 12% of the U.S.’s total electricity consumption that year, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has projected.

Inside the data-center energy race with Google and Microsoft

Hyperscalers are investing in new clean-energy tech and rethinking how they run data centers.

We Energies plans 5 billion in new Wisconsin power projects

We Energies unveils 5 billion in solar, gas, and battery projects to power Wisconsin data centers for Microsoft, OpenAI, and Oracle, adding 3 GW to the grid.