US data centre electricity consumption, LBNL December 2024 vintage
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United States · 2018
US data centre electricity consumption, LBNL December 2024 vintage was 76 TWh in 2018 (Berkeley Lab).
- Publisher
- Berkeley Lab
- Authority tier
- T3 Research
- Locator
- Executive summary, printed page 5 / Figure ES-1 discussion
- Retrieved
- 22 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
by 2018 data centers consumed about 76 TWh, representing 1.9% of total annual U.S. electricity consumption.
Checked: the figure 76 TWh is stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
Cite this figure
APA
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (2024). 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report. Retrieved September 22, 2026, from https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/lbnl-2024-united-states-data-center-energy-usage-report_1.pdf. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2edbb0b5e3b566b2895028d7
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report." 2024, https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/lbnl-2024-united-states-data-center-energy-usage-report_1.pdf. Accessed 22 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2edbb0b5e3b566b2895028d7.
- Chicago
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report." 2024. https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/lbnl-2024-united-states-data-center-energy-usage-report_1.pdf. Accessed September 22, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2edbb0b5e3b566b2895028d7.
- BibTeX
- @misc{berkeleylab2024data5028d7, author = {{Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory}}, title = {2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report}, year = {2024}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2edbb0b5e3b566b2895028d7}, note = {Original source: https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/lbnl-2024-united-states-data-center-energy-usage-report\_1.pdf. Accessed September 22, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 3 · Research and companies
- Report
- 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 20 December 2024
- Locator
- Executive summary, printed page 5 / Figure ES-1 discussion
- Retrieved
- 22 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- Proprietary report; figure taken from its public summary
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- editorial:ai-assisted-source-check:2026-09-22
- Checked on
- 22 September 2026
- Last revision
- 26 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_2edbb0b5e3b566b2895028d7