IDCA report puts the US at 43% of world datacenter power use, but only 6% of its own electricity
ComputerWeekly (via r/singularity)·low signal
A ComputerWeekly writeup of an IDCA datacentre report, surfaced on r/singularity at 155 upvotes, reports the US consuming 43% of global datacenter power against China's 13%, while datacenters take 6% of US electricity and 0.8% of China's. Singapore (19.5%), Hong Kong (6%) and seven European countries devote a larger share of national electricity to datacenters than the US does. Single-sourced here: ComputerWeekly returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, so these figures come from the Reddit summary of the article and have not been checked against the underlying IDCA report.