‘The new battle ground for scaling and protecting margins’: AI servers set to consume more power than every conventional data center by 2027
- AI data center power consumption will soon exceed the consumption of conventional data centers
- Global data center power consumption has risen by 26% since 2025
- In the US, AI data centers account for 36% of all data center power consumption
Data centers built to add capacity for AI will soon consume more power than conventional data center hardware. Consuming 175 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2026, predictions take that number to 258 TWh in 2027 - at which AI-optimized data centers will pass conventional data centers for consumption.
Compared to 2025, AI data center power consumption has increased by around 84%.These are the findings of a Gartner forecast that also predicts AI optimized servers to account for 31% of data center power consumption in 2026.
This level of consumption, combined with an excess in electricity demand compared to production, will be the main constraint on future AI expansion, Gartner predicts. But data...
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