{"id":1132606,"name":"Share of total electricity demand coming from data centers","unit":"%","createdAt":"2026-01-06T21:40:50.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-01-28T11:01:32.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"2020-2024","datasetId":7308,"shortUnit":"%","columnOrder":0,"shortName":"total_electricity_consumption__share_of_total_electricity_demand__historical","catalogPath":"grapher/artificial_intelligence/2025-11-07/energy_ai/energy_ai#total_electricity_consumption__share_of_total_electricity_demand__historical","descriptionShort":"Data center electricity consumption as a share of total electricity demand of the country or region. Data centers power a wide range of online services beyond AI, such as streaming services and cloud storage. The data does not allow a separate estimate for AI use.","descriptionProcessing":"We calculated this share by dividing data center electricity consumption by total electricity demand for each country or region.","type":"float","dataChecksum":"10755871082848722243","metadataChecksum":"903802532207931751","datasetName":"Energy and AI","updatePeriodDays":365,"datasetVersion":"2025-11-07","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"unit":"%","shortUnit":"%","numDecimalPlaces":1},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"major","presentation":{"topicTagsLinks":["Artificial Intelligence","Energy"]},"descriptionKey":["This indicator shows what share of a country’s or region’s total electricity demand comes from data centers.","It covers total data-center electricity use (including cooling and other support systems), across both general-purpose and AI-specialized servers."],"dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":2020},{"id":2023},{"id":2024}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":171,"name":"China","code":"CHN"},{"id":13,"name":"United States","code":"USA"},{"id":355,"name":"World","code":"OWID_WRL"},{"id":372379,"name":"World excl. United States and China","code":null}]}},"origins":[{"id":10737,"title":"Energy and AI","descriptionSnapshot":"This dataset contains world and regional data on energy consumption and infrastructure related to artificial intelligence, including:\n- Installed capacity\n- Power usage effectiveness (PUE)\n- Load factor\n- Electricity consumption\n\nThe data provides insights into the energy requirements and efficiency of AI infrastructure globally.\n","producer":"International Energy Agency","citationFull":"International Energy Agency (IEA), 'Energy and AI'. Published online at iea.org. Retrieved from: 'https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-product/energy-and-ai' [online resource]","urlMain":"https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-product/energy-and-ai","dateAccessed":"2025-11-07","datePublished":"2025-06-16","license":{"url":"https://www.iea.org/terms","name":"© OECD/IEA 2024"}},{"id":10896,"title":"Yearly Electricity Data Europe","description":"This dataset contains yearly electricity generation, capacity, emissions, imports and demand data for European countries.\n\nYou can find more about Ember's methodology in [this document](https://files.ember-energy.org/public-downloads/ember_electricity_data_methodology.pdf).","producer":"Ember","citationFull":"Ember - Yearly Electricity Data Europe (2026).\n\nMost of the data is taken from the European Commission's Eurostat annual data.","attributionShort":"Ember","urlMain":"https://ember-energy.org/data/yearly-electricity-data/","urlDownload":"https://files.ember-energy.org/public-downloads/europe_yearly_full_release_long_format.csv","dateAccessed":"2026-01-26","datePublished":"2026-01-26","license":{"url":"https://ember-energy.org/creative-commons/","name":"CC BY 4.0"}},{"id":10759,"title":"Yearly Electricity Data","description":"This dataset contains yearly electricity generation, capacity, emissions, import and demand data for over 200 geographies.\n\n\nYou can find more about Ember's methodology in [this document](https://storage.googleapis.com/emb-prod-bkt-publicdata/public-downloads/ember_electricity_data_methodology.pdf).","producer":"Ember","citationFull":"Ember - Yearly Electricity Data (2026).\n\nThe data is collected from multi-country datasets (EIA, Eurostat, Energy Institute, UN) as well as national sources (e.g China data from the National Bureau of Statistics).","attributionShort":"Ember","urlMain":"https://ember-energy.org/data/yearly-electricity-data/","urlDownload":"https://storage.googleapis.com/emb-prod-bkt-publicdata/public-downloads/yearly_full_release_long_format.csv","dateAccessed":"2026-01-09","datePublished":"2026-01-09","license":{"url":"https://ember-energy.org/creative-commons/","name":"CC BY 4.0"}}]}