“This report updates the 2024 Data Center Energy Usage Report and estimates that data centers could account for 11.8% of total U.S. electricity by 2030 (reference case 649 TWh), with a scenario range of 9.5% to 15.3% of total U.S. electricity use by 2030 — compared with the 2024 report's 6.7%–12.0% by 2028 estimate.”
2024 U.S. Data Center Energy Usage Report for the Department of Energy; lead author Arman Shehabi
Said Jun 2026Deadline Dec 31, 2030United States Data Center Energy Usage Report: 2025 Update, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL-2001758), released 2026
Target year 2030 is in the future. Note the report is titled '2025 Update' but is self-cited as Shehabi 2026 and references the NERC 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment published in 2026.