AI infrastructure power · Data-center electricity demand · CARTA-DEMAND-WORLD-GLOBAL_DC_SHARE_2024-2025-04-09-001
Data-center share of electricity use, , for 2024
1.5%
As of 9 Apr 2025 · International Energy Agency (IEA) · Single source Permalink
Record
- Filter, as published
share of the world's electricity consumption
- Category
- AI infrastructure power · Data-center electricity demand
- Object
- global_data_centers
- Measure
- Data-center share of electricity use (dc_electricity_share_percent)
- Family
- demand_estimate · load
- Geography
- World
- For year
- 2024
- Organization
- International Energy Agency
- Claim type
- Estimate
- Method
- Transcribed by hand from the document (Executive summary, PDF page 14). Raw sha256 f77d769267e4. Verified against the source file on 2026-09-14 by TechCarta's automated checks: each quote was found in the source file and each value in its quote. Approved for publication by C.J. Fernandes.
- Source
- International Energy Agency (IEA), Energy and AI (World Energy Outlook Special Report)
Intergovernmental agency · retrieved 14 Sep 2026
https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/b8a83930-5c77-4da7-b795-270ab6a6c272/EnergyandAI.pdf
Archived copy (identical file) - Evidence
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- Re-check after
- 9 Apr 2027 (730 days after the as-of date)
- Notes
- Data centres are reported separately from cryptocurrency mining, networks and devices (Figure 2.15). Consumption covers servers, other IT equipment, cooling and other infrastructure.
- License
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Plain text
International Energy Agency (IEA). (2025). Energy and AI (World Energy Outlook Special Report) [Data-center share of electricity use, None, for 2024: 1.5%, as of 2025-04-09]. Retrieved 2026-09-14, from https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/b8a83930-5c77-4da7-b795-270ab6a6c272/EnergyandAI.pdf. Recorded in TechCarta, CARTA-DEMAND-WORLD-GLOBAL_DC_SHARE_2024-2025-04-09-001. https://techcarta.com/carta/CARTA-DEMAND-WORLD-GLOBAL_DC_SHARE_2024-2025-04-09-001/
BibTeX
@misc{carta_demand_world_global_dc_share_2024_2025_04_09_001,
author = {{International Energy Agency (IEA)}},
title = {Energy and AI (World Energy Outlook Special Report): Data-center share of electricity use, None, for 2024, 1.5\% (as of 2025-04-09)},
year = {2025},
howpublished = {\url{https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/b8a83930-5c77-4da7-b795-270ab6a6c272/EnergyandAI.pdf}},
note = {TechCarta Carta CARTA-DEMAND-WORLD-GLOBAL_DC_SHARE_2024-2025-04-09-001; source retrieved 2026-09-14},
url = {https://techcarta.com/carta/CARTA-DEMAND-WORLD-GLOBAL_DC_SHARE_2024-2025-04-09-001/}
} This Carta is a TechCarta record, free to read and cite. Use of it requires citation. The underlying source belongs to its publisher.