{"id":1013776,"date":"2026-06-11T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013776"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:28:01","slug":"global-data-centre-electricity-consumption-to-reach-565twh-in-2026-says-gartner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/11\/global-data-centre-electricity-consumption-to-reach-565twh-in-2026-says-gartner\/","title":{"rendered":"Global data centre electricity consumption to reach 565TWh in 2026, says Gartner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global electricity consumption by data centres is expected to reach 565 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2026, up 26.4% from 447TWh in 2025, according to Gartner. <\/p>\n<p>The research firm said worldwide data centre power demand is projected to increase to 132 gigawatts (GW) in 2026 from 104GW in 2025. Demand is expected to reach 290GW by 2030. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurging demand for compute-intensive AI workloads is driving unprecedented data center power growth, while AI capacity is now constrained by power availability, making data center power security the new battle ground for scaling and protecting margins in the global AI race,\u201d said Linglan Wang, Director Analyst at Gartner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global electricity consumption by data centres is expected to reach 565 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2026, up 26.4% from 447TWh in 2025, according to Gartner. The research firm said worldwide data centre power demand is projected to increase to 132 gigawatts (GW) in 2026 from 104GW in 2025. Demand is expected to reach 290GW by 2030. \u201cSurging demand for compute-intensive AI workloads is driving unprecedented data center power growth, while AI capacity is now constrained by power availability, making data center power security the new battle ground for scaling and protecting margins in the global AI race,\u201d said Linglan Wang, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013807,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013776\/revisions\/1013807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}