{"id":149739,"date":"2024-11-14T00:44:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/data-centers-thats-a-lot-of-power"},"modified":"2024-11-14T00:44:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:44:31","slug":"data-centers-thats-a-lot-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=149739","title":{"rendered":"Data Centers: That\u2019s a Lot of Power!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/data-centers-thats-a-lot-of-power\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/hubfs\/2024\/Blog%20Assets\/AdobeStock_481244965-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Data Centers: That\u2019s a Lot of Power!\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>The data center market is in the midst of an unprecedented shift that started\u2014publicly at least\u2014five years ago with the announced moratoria on new development in Singapore and Frankfurt. Those regulatory interventions highlighted the challenges the industry faces in securing sufficient power.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, it turned out that data centers would need much more power than had been realized\u2014just at a time when regulators and community organizations were growing increasingly critical of the sector&#8217;s existing demand.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.telegeography.com\/data-center-research-service\">Data Center Research Service<\/a> estimates that, as of 2024, colocation operators in the top ten data center markets by MW consume about 13 gigawatts (GW) of power.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s enough power to generate electricity for roughly 10 million homes\u2014or, in this case, only about 1,000 commercial data centers!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/track.hubspot.com\/__ptq.gif?a=594292&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.telegeography.com%2Fdata-centers-thats-a-lot-of-power&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fblog.telegeography.com&amp;bvt=rss\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; \"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The data center market is in the midst of an unprecedented shift that started\u2014publicly at least\u2014five years ago with the announced moratoria on new development in Singapore and Frankfurt. 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