2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report

Item Type Journal Article Author Arman Shehabi Author Alex Newkirk Author Sarah J. Smith Author Alex Hubbard Author Nuoa Lei Author Md Abu Bakar Siddik Author Billie Holecek Author Jonathan Koomey Author Eric Masanet Author Dale Sartor URL https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32d6m0d1 Date 2024-12-20 DOI 10.71468/P1WC7Q Accessed 2025-07-11 15:04:49 Library Catalog escholarship.org Language en Abstract The Energy Act of 2020 calls for the U.S. Department of Energy to make available to the public an update to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s prior study entitled United States Data Center Energy Usage Report (2016). This report, designed to meet that Congressional request, estimates historical data center electricity consumption back to 2014, relying on previous studies and historical shipment data. This report also provides a scenario range of future demand out to 2028 based on new trends and the most recent available data. Figure ES-1 (below) provides an estimate of total U.S. data center electricity use including servers, storage, network equipment, and infrastructure from 2014 through 2028.