What Saul Griffith thinks about data centers

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Australian-American engineer and inventor; founded Otherlab and co-founded Rewiring America and Rewiring Australia, which advocate household electrification. Author of Electrify (2021) and The Big Switch (2022); writes the Energy & Stuff newsletter.

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1. 20 Sept 2026

   Our readingData center expansion will be significantly smaller than some market optimists predict due to code efficiencies.

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   Their wordsMy opinion is that we will find enormous code efficiencies and the data centre build-out will be far, far smaller than the hyperventilating stock boosters say, which will put a cap on the resources it will use.

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