{"id":12850759,"date":"2025-12-01T21:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12850759"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:22:20","slug":"data-centers-power-demand-surging-faster-new-analysis-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2025\/12\/01\/data-centers-power-demand-surging-faster-new-analysis-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centers&#8217; power demand surging faster, new analysis shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex flex-col items-start space-y-4 sm:space-y-6 mb-6 sm:mb-10\">\n<h2 class=\"text-soft-black-core h5 md:h3 font-regular\" data-cy=\"story-headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/12\/01\/data-centers-ai-power-energy-demand-future?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=topic%2Ftechnology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data centers&#8217; power demand surging faster, new analysis shows<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>By <a class=\"font-regular font-sans leading-none no-underline inline-flex items-center [&amp;&gt;.icon+span]:ml-2 [&amp;&gt;span+.icon]:ml-2 gtmContentClick\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/authors\/bgeman\" data-cy=\"byline-author\" aria-label=\"Ben Geman's author page\" data-index=\"0\" data-vars-content-id=\"15d2095e-c32c-4b69-8c64-62698dbebecc\" data-vars-headline=\"Data centers' power demand surging faster, new analysis shows\" data-vars-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-label=\"Ben Geman\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/authors\/bgeman\"><span class=\"hover:underline focus:underline text-soft-black-core tag hover:text-interactive-secondary hover:underline underline-offset-2 focus:underline\">Ben Geman, Axios <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-1-13 [&amp;_*]:font-serif 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[&amp;_#piano-container:not(:empty)]:before:to-white [&amp;_#piano-container:not(:empty)]:before:pointer-events-none [&amp;_#piano-spinner]:relative [&amp;_#piano-spinner]:before:content-[&quot;&quot;] [&amp;_#piano-spinner]:before:h-40 [&amp;_#piano-spinner]:before:absolute [&amp;_#piano-spinner]:before:-top-40 [&amp;_#piano-spinner]:before:w-full [&amp;_#piano-spinner]:before:bg-gradient-to-b [&amp;_#piano-spinner]:before:from-transparent [&amp;_#piano-spinner]:before:to-white [&amp;_#piano-spinner]:before:pointer-events-none [&amp;_#paywall-fallback-container]:relative [&amp;_#paywall-fallback-container]:before:content-[&quot;&quot;] [&amp;_#paywall-fallback-container]:before:h-40 [&amp;_#paywall-fallback-container]:before:absolute [&amp;_#paywall-fallback-container]:before:-top-40 [&amp;_#paywall-fallback-container]:before:w-full [&amp;_#paywall-fallback-container]:before:bg-gradient-to-b [&amp;_#paywall-fallback-container]:before:from-transparent [&amp;_#paywall-fallback-container]:before:to-white [&amp;_#paywall-fallback-container]:before:pointer-events-none [&amp;_figure&gt;figcaption&gt;span]:font-sans\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\">\n<p>Research firm BloombergNEF sees U.S. power demand from\u00a0<a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/technology\/automation-and-ai\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-link-text=\"data centers\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/technology\/automation-and-ai\" data-vars-content-id=\"15d2095e-c32c-4b69-8c64-62698dbebecc\" data-vars-headline=\"Data centers' power demand surging faster, new analysis shows\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">data centers<\/a>\u00a0reaching 106 gigawatts by 2035, per an analysis issued Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:\u00a0<\/strong>That&#8217;s a 36% upward revision from its April outlook, &#8220;illustrating just how quickly the sector is expanding,&#8221; the analysis\u00a0<a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/about.bnef.com\/insights\/clean-energy\/ai-and-the-power-grid-where-the-rubber-meets-the-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-link-text=\"said\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/about.bnef.com\/insights\/clean-energy\/ai-and-the-power-grid-where-the-rubber-meets-the-road\/\" data-vars-content-id=\"15d2095e-c32c-4b69-8c64-62698dbebecc\" data-vars-headline=\"Data centers' power demand surging faster, new analysis shows\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One gigawatt can power about 750,000 to 1 million homes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Yes, but:<\/strong>\u00a0Even that bigger 2035 projection is still pretty conservative compared to estimates from Goldman Sachs, BCG, McKinsey and several others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/12\/01\/data-centers-ai-power-energy-demand-future?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=topic%2Ftechnology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data centers&#8217; power demand surging faster, new analysis shows By Ben Geman, Axios Research firm BloombergNEF sees U.S. power demand from\u00a0data centers\u00a0reaching 106 gigawatts by 2035, per an analysis issued Monday. Why it matters:\u00a0That&#8217;s a 36% upward revision from its April outlook, &#8220;illustrating just how quickly the sector is expanding,&#8221; the analysis\u00a0said. One gigawatt can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":12848159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22331,26292,26922,21,1,12,26295],"tags":[26310,524,26302],"class_list":{"0":"post-12850759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence-ai-generative-ai-chatgpt-natural-language-processing","8":"category-energy","9":"category-market-news","10":"category-available","11":"category-uncategorized","12":"category-phils-favorites","13":"category-technology","14":"tag-ai","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12850759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12850760,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850759\/revisions\/12850760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12848159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12850759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12850759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12850759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}