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Llewellyn King
Llewellyn King
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·Posted in Energy Business
Thu, Aug 21

Q&A: Do we have any estimate on how much data center load is going to be connected to US grid in the next 10 years? What percentage of that do we expect to be AI-training data centers that seem to be a lot more impactful than others?

As a part of the recently held (and published on Energy Central) USEA Press Panel Briefing on the topic of "How Data Centers Are Inexorably Upending the Utilities", audience members had several questions that we didn't have time to address in the live time with our experts. So we're reposting the question here as a discussion starter:

Do we have any estimate on how much data center load is going to be connected to US grid in the next 10 years? What percentage of that do we expect to be AI-training data centers that seem to be a lot more impactful than others?

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