Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates: Growth in energy use has slowed owing to efficiency gains that smart policies can help maintain in the near term

Eric Masanet, Arman Shehabi, Nuoa Lei, Sarah Smith, Jonathan Koomey

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Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)984-986
Number of pages3
JournalScience
Volume367
Issue number6481
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 28 2020

Funding

This material includes work conducted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) with support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office. LBNL is supported by the Office of Science of the DOE and operated under contract grant No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. E.M. and N.L. are grateful for financial support provided by Leslie and Mac McQuown. The global data center analysis modeling file with all data inputs, results, methodological notes, figures, discussion of uncertainties, and sources is available on GitHub (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3668743).

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