{
    "statement": "of electricity used by data centers worldwide in 2025, up 17%; the IEA expects about 950 TWh by 2030",
    "value_display": "485 TWh",
    "value_numeric": 485,
    "unit": "",
    "data_label": "2025",
    "data_period_end": "2025-12-31",
    "region": "Global",
    "size": "all",
    "source": {
        "name": "Energy and AI reports",
        "publisher": "International Energy Agency",
        "type": "estimate",
        "url": "https://www.iea.org/"
    },
    "source_url": "https://www.iea.org/reports/key-questions-on-energy-and-ai/executive-summary",
    "source_quote": "Our updated projections see electricity consumption from data centres roughly doubling from 485 TWh in 2025 to 950 TWh in 2030, accounting for around 3% of global electricity demand by that date.",
    "verification_note": "Read on iea.org (\"Key Questions on Energy and AI\", published 16 Apr 2026) on 2026-10-23. Same page: data centre demand \"grew by 17% in 2025\"; AI-focused data centres \"surging 50%\". The 2025 IEA report estimated 415 TWh for 2024 (iea.org, 10 Apr 2025).",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": null,
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": null,
    "revisions": [
        {
            "happened_on": "2025-04-10",
            "kind": "new_data",
            "value_display": "415 TWh",
            "note": "IEA Energy and AI (2025): about 415 TWh in 2024, about 1.5% of global electricity."
        }
    ],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ai/data-center-electricity-global",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ai/data-center-electricity-global.csv"
}