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At the centre The efficiency gains that kept data-centre electricity use flat for a decade are largely spent, so new demand now arrives as new power demand. Holds BPBrian Potter Read this korrent →

• Same subject: data centers, energy Available power, not land or capital, is what now limits how many data centres get built. Holds BPBrian Potter
• Same subject: data centers, energy Concerns about the energy cost of an individual LLM prompt are no longer credible, though the environmental impact of the AI datacenter buildout remains a real worry. Holds HRHannah RitchieSWSimon Willison
• Same subject: data centers, energy Cooling adds nothing to what a data centre produces, which is why it is the first thing a good design deletes rather than optimises. Holds AVAustin Vernon
• Same subject: data centers, energy Data centre opposition only pushes construction to the parts of America that regulate energy and pollution least. Holds TPThomas Ptacek
• Same subject: data centers, energy Data centres and the grid that feeds them run on incompatible clocks: one is a two-year project, the other a multi-decade investment. Holds BPBrian Potter
• Same subject: data centers, energy Data centres had not raised the average American household's electricity bill as of 2025; inflation and the gas-price shock did. Holds AMAndy Masley
• Same subject: data centers, energy Data centres should be built to degrade gracefully when the grid needs its power back, instead of demanding perfect uptime from utilities that have idle capacity most of the year. Holds JHJensen Huang
• Same subject: data centers, energy Data-centre electricity consumption will rise substantially even after allowing for every efficiency gain now in sight. Holds BPBrian Potter