--- title: Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035 description: A BloombergNEF report forecasts that U.S. data centers will consume one-fifth of the country's electricity by 2035, four times current levels. AI compute is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/data-centers-expected-to-use-4x-more-electricity-by-2035-j2q6reqsj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035 | daily.dev og:description: A BloombergNEF report forecasts that U.S. data centers will consume one-fifth of the country's electricity by 2035, four times current levels. AI compute is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/data-centers-expected-to-use-4x-more-electricity-by-2035-j2q6reqsj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/j2q6rEqsj.png og:image:alt: Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035 **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A BloombergNEF report forecasts that U.S. data centers will consume one-fifth of the country's electricity by 2035, four times current levels. AI compute is the primary driver, pushing data center capacity toward 200 gigawatts. The forecast is 83% higher than BloombergNEF's own December estimate, with EPRI and S&P also sharply revising their projections upward. Existing power grids like PJM and ERCOT face severe strain, with PJM already seeing electricity prices rise 76% and one major utility threatening to exit the interconnection. Globally, new data center demand by 2033 could rival India's entire annual electricity consumption. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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