Australian data centres will use seven times more power by 2036
Australian data centres will take 13% of the country’s main electricity market by 2035-36, up from 3% today. That is almost a sevenfold rise in a decade, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator. Keira Wright reported the forecast for Bloomberg.
The figure lands in AEMO’s annual Electricity Statement of Opportunities. The document is the operator’s read on whether supply will meet demand across the National Electricity Market over the coming decade, and it is the one utilities and governments plan against.
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Data centres will draw 34 terawatt hours a year from the National Electricity Market by 2035-36, on AEMO’s projection. The market operator published the forecast at a moment when the country is closing most of its old baseload.
Roughly 13 gigawatts of coal-fired plant will retire within the decade. Almost 2 gigawatts of gas generation will go with it.
Those two sets of numbers do not...
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