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data center power consumption

Operators are signing long-term nuclear and geothermal contracts, co-locating with generation, and building on-site storage to smooth peaks. More quietly, they are getting serious about efficiency again: model distillation, better scheduling and workload placement in regions with surplus power all reduce demand without new steel in the ground.

  • AI training and inference clusters draw power densities that legacy data centre designs were never built for.
  • Grid interconnection waits now run for years in several major markets — longer than it takes to build the facility.
  • Large transformers and switchgear have multi-year lead times, with a handful of global suppliers.
  • Cooling water and local heat rejection are becoming siting constraints in their own right.

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