Europe’s Data Centers Will Gobble Up a Lot More Electricity

  • Power use at the sites to jump about 80% by 2030: BloombergNEF
  • Data centers may make up quarter of Irish power demand by then

    

Photographer: Wolfram Schroll/Bloomberg
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Europe’s data center industry will use much more electricity by the end of this decade, accounting for about a quarter of total power consumption in Ireland alone, according to BloombergNEF.