All data centres: annual electricity consumption growth
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Global · 2025
All data centres: annual electricity consumption growth worldwide was 17% in 2025 (IEA).
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Executive summary / Energy consumption per AI query has declined massively
- Retrieved
- 22 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The global electricity demand of data centres – the critical infrastructure for training and running AI models – grew by 17% in 2025, in line with IEA projections.
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APA
International Energy Agency. (2026). Executive summary – Key Questions on Energy and AI – Analysis - IEA. Retrieved September 22, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/key-questions-on-energy-and-ai/executive-summary. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_fa7c23a210b1f4c13b270ea9
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- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Executive summary – Key Questions on Energy and AI – Analysis - IEA." 2026, https://www.iea.org/reports/key-questions-on-energy-and-ai/executive-summary. Accessed 22 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_fa7c23a210b1f4c13b270ea9.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Executive summary – Key Questions on Energy and AI – Analysis - IEA." 2026. https://www.iea.org/reports/key-questions-on-energy-and-ai/executive-summary. Accessed September 22, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_fa7c23a210b1f4c13b270ea9.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2026world270ea9, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Executive summary – Key Questions on Energy and AI – Analysis - IEA}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_fa7c23a210b1f4c13b270ea9}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/key-questions-on-energy-and-ai/executive-summary. Accessed September 22, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Executive summary – Key Questions on Energy and AI – Analysis - IEA
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 16 April 2026
- Locator
- Executive summary / Energy consumption per AI query has declined massively
- Retrieved
- 22 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- CC by 4.0
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_fa7c23a210b1f4c13b270ea9