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AI's Water and Electricity Use Soars In 2026

“Utilities, data centers drive growth in battery storage​


Utility-scale battery storage additions in the U.S.​

Gigawatt-hours; Annually, 2022–2026
A stacked column chart showing utility-scale battery storage additions in the U.S. from 2022 to 2026. In 2022, states added 12 gigawatt-hours of battery storage, mostly in California. In 2026, that number is expected to increase to 62 gigawatt-hours, with the majority in Texas, California, and Arizona.

Projected

California
Texas
Arizona
Other states

Data: Solar Energy Industries Association and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence; Chart: Axios Visuals
U.S. battery storage installations rose 29% last year, driven by strong utility-scale growth in Arizona and Texas, per new data from the Solar Energy Industries Association and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.
Why it matters: Storage is a flexible resource that helps meet demand peaks and enables higher levels of renewables …”

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/23/battery-storage-utilities-data-centers
 

“Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise​

Even in a fragile farm economy, million-dollar offers can’t sway dedicated farmers.

It seems that tech giants eyeing rural zones for data center development have underestimated how attached American farmers have grown to their lands in the decades they’ve been nurturing them.
Across the country, several farmers have firmly rejected eye-popping offers—sometimes in the tens of millions. These offers dwarf the value of their properties, but farmers have refused to put a price on the lands that they love most.“

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/western-digital-doubles-down-ai-070806616.html
 

“AMD and Meta Announce Expanded Strategic Partnership to Deploy 6 Gigawatts of AMD GPUs​

PRESS RELEASE by btarunr Today, 05:28 Discuss (3 Comments)
AMD and Meta today announced a 6-gigawatt agreement to power Meta's next generation of AI infrastructure across multiple generations of AMD Instinct GPUs. This agreement expands on the companies' existing strategic partnership and aligns roadmaps across silicon, systems and software to deliver AI platforms purpose-built for Meta's workloads. The first deployment will use a custom AMD Instinct GPU based on the MI450 architecture to deliver AI platforms that are optimized for Meta's workloads at gigawatt-scale. Shipments supporting the first gigawatt deployment are scheduled to begin in the second half of 2026 powered by the custom AMD Instinct MI450-based GPU and 6th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs, codenamed "Venice," running ROCm software and built on the AMD Helios rack-scale architecture. AMD Helios was developed jointly by AMD and Meta through the Open Compute Project to enable scalable, rack-level AI infrastructure.

"We are proud to expand our strategic partnership with Meta as they push the boundaries of AI at unprecedented scale," said Dr. Lisa Su, chair and CEO, AMD. "This multi-year, multi-generation collaboration across Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs and rack-scale AI systems aligns our roadmaps to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient infrastructure optimized for Meta's workloads, accelerating one of the industry's largest AI deployments and placing AMD at the center of the global AI buildout."”
 

“Data centers are becoming power plants – this NJ project proves it​

Calibrant Energy has signed a definitive agreement with Iron Mountain to build, own, and operate a 23-megawatt-hour (MWh) battery at the latter’s New Jersey data center.

Data center as a clean energy source?​

The battery storage system will be paired with the facility’s existing 7.2-MW rooftop solar array as part of Iron Mountain’s push toward 24/7 carbon–free energy at its data centers.
The project points to a bigger shift: Power-hungry data centers are starting to manage electricity more like a controllable asset than a fixed load, and Calibrant says its build-own-operate model helps customers cut costs while improving reliability.
The system uses real-time controls to decide when to store energy and when to deploy it. During peak demand, the stored energy can be dispatched to reduce strain on regional infrastructure, helping avoid the need for additional fossil-fuel-based power generation.”

https://electrek.co/2026/02/19/data-centers-are-becoming-power-plants-this-nj-project-proves-it/
 

“New Datacentres Risk Doubling Great Britain's Electricity Use, Regulator Says​

msmash an hour ago		6
The amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in Great Britain would exceed the national current peak electricity consumption, according to an industry watchdog. From a report: Ofgem said about 140 proposed datacentre schemes, driven by use of artificial intelligence, could require 50 gigawatts of electricity -- 5GW more than the country's current peak demand.

The figure was revealed in an Ofgem consultation on demand for new connections to the power grid. It pointed to a "surge in demand" for connection applications between November 2024 and June last year, with a significant number coming from datacentres. This has exceeded even the most ambitious forecasts.

Meanwhile, new renewable energy projects are not being connected to the grid at the pace they are being built to help meet the government's clean energy targets by the end of the decade. Ofgem said the work required to connect surging numbers of datacentres could mean delays for other projects that are "critical for decarbonisation and economic growth." Datacentres are the central nervous system of AI tools such as chatbots and image generators, playing a vital role in training and operating products such as ChatGPT and Gemini.”
 

“The AI Boom Is Powering a Nuclear Renaissance​

By Robert Rapier - Feb 24, 2026, 11:00 AM CST
  • Hyperscale AI data centers require city-scale electricity loads, making dependable baseload power a strategic necessity.
  • Microsoft and Amazon are forming direct nuclear partnerships and pursuing advanced reactor technologies to secure long-term energy supply.
  • Energy infrastructure, particularly nuclear generation and uranium supply, is emerging as a structural beneficiary of AI-driven demand growth.

For years, Silicon Valley took electricity for granted. The cloud sounded intangible, almost detached from the physical world. But now, artificial intelligence is ending that illusion. Behind every large language model and AI assistant sits a growing fleet of data centers that require enormous and continuous amounts of power.
Industry analysts estimate that a single hyperscale AI data center can demand 300 to 500 megawatts of electricity, comparable to the consumption of a mid-sized city. Multiply that across dozens of facilities under construction, and energy supply becomes less of an operating expense and more of a strategic constraint.“

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-En...I-Boom-Is-Powering-a-Nuclear-Renaissance.html
 

“Data center expansion reaches an ‘inflection point’​


KEY POINTS
  • Texas is about to unseat Virginia as the world’s largest data market, according to a new report from JLL.
  • Data center vacancies at the end of 2025 remained at a historic low of 1% for the second year in a row.
  • The demand is now being driven by hyperscalers and AI, and headwinds to new development are keeping construction less robust than it could be.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/data-center-expansion-reaches-an-inflection-point.html
 
littlegreenmenfromhome said:
I know it is the FOMO to hate datacenters, but her in Denmark we reuse the heat generated
https://www.ramboll.com/projects/energy/meta-surplus-heat-to-district-heating

Now you all can go back to hating Datacenters/A.I. because your private use of compute (and thus power usage and heat generation) has gone up in price, because when you use it it is okay, but when others do it is bad, right?
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That's great for Denmark ... but that has no effect whatsoever on the impact of AI. The heat they're capturing has already been spent. It doesn't offset the massive carbon emissions from mining rare earth minerals ... or the millions and millions of gallons of water that's required for cooling these things. Any gain in "efficiency" is just leading to an even bigger spike in total consumption. So while it's nifty that Denmark is using this heat ... it doesn't magically make AI more sustainable. It's like praising a huge gas guzzling SUV because it also heats the inside of the car really nice.
 
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Shoganai said:
That's great for Denmark ... but that has no effect whatsoever on the impact of AI. The heat they're capturing has already been spent. It doesn't offset the massive carbon emissions from mining rare earth minerals ... or the millions and millions of gallons of water that's required for cooling these things. Any gain in "efficiency" is just leading to an even bigger spike in total consumption. So while it's nifty that Denmark is using this heat ... it doesn't magically make AI more sustainable. It's like praising a huge gas guzzling SUV because it also heats the inside of the car really nice.
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And the PC's in people home are not using power during manufactoring or usage so it it fine if you are doing that at home, but not okay if done in a datcenter, gotcha.
How much CO² do your daily footprint the the web create, including your posts here?

+75% of the energy usage comes from the prodcution, not the the daily usage at least servers gets to run 5-7 years, unlike gamers upgrading their GPU every single generation.
 
littlegreenmenfromhome said:
And the PC's in people home are not using power during manufactoring or usage so it it fine if you are doing that at home, but not okay if done in a datcenter, gotcha.
How much CO² do your daily footprint the the web create, including your posts here?

+75% of the energy usage comes from the prodcution, not the the daily usage at least servers gets to run 5-7 years, unlike gamers upgrading their GPU every single generation.
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Are you seriously comparing PCs in people's homes to massive AI data centers?
 
US has always valued the democratization of "things" over centralization. What works in the EU isn't necessarily a transferable model.
 
Shoganai said:
This is so silly that I'm not even going to continue this conversation.
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But yet you chose to waste CO2 on the device your posting from, the ISP you use and the server the forum runs on with your "non-reply" but I guess that is okay because you are the "jugde" of which CO2 usage is good or bad right?
 
littlegreenmenfromhome said:
But yet you chose to waste CO2 on the device your posting from, the ISP you use and the server the forum runs on with your "non-reply" but I guess that is okay because you are the "jugde" of which CO2 usage is good or bad right?
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Which pales so astronomically in comparison to AI that there is absolutely no point even arguing about this. AI is having a very real negative impact on the entire planet, on the environment, on the availability of things like RAM in every day things we buy, etc.

You don't actually have a point. This is weird and I'm done.
 

“Xcel Energy says it will power Google's new data center in Pine Island​

Xcel revealed the partnership Tuesday, saying it believes the initiative will contribute to the state's clean energy goals.
Author: Samantha Fischer
Published: 11:28 AM CST February 24, 2026
Updated: 7:33 PM CST February 24, 2026
PINE ISLAND, Minn. — Minnesota's Xcel Energy will power Google's new data center being built in Pine Island, the company announced Tuesday.
Xcel revealed the partnership Tuesday in a press release, saying it believes the initiative will contribute to the state's clean energy goals and will ensure its current customers "benefit." Xcel said the project brings 1,900 megawatts of clean energy to the grid.“

https://www.kare11.com/article/news...sland/89-acd39595-f7a1-41e5-85d2-3932b330182f
 
Shoganai said:
Which pales so astronomically in comparison to AI that there is absolutely no point even arguing about this. AI is having a very real negative impact on the entire planet, on the environment, on the availability of things like RAM in every day things we buy, etc.

You don't actually have a point. This is weird and I'm done.
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Wasting CO2 again.
 
Shoganai said:
Which pales so astronomically in comparison to AI that there is absolutely no point even arguing about this. AI is having a very real negative impact on the entire planet, on the environment, on the availability of things like RAM in every day things we buy, etc.

You don't actually have a point. This is weird and I'm done.
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AI is having no negative impact on the entire planet. NONE. CO2 is not a pollutant.
 
Shoganai said:
Yes, I'm fully aware. And too much of it in the atmosphere causes issues.
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Yep, It’s the most abundant of the many emissions that fuck up the atmosphere. I don’t know the exact stats offhand, but the extra CO2 is accountable for something like 2/3 of the added heat trapping effect.

That said, I’m a pragmatist and generally pro-datacenters… so I don’t have much room to bitch other than wishing we would spend a lot more on cheap, renewable power vs dumbass stuff like keeping money-losing coal plants online.
 
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Yep, It’s the most abundant of the many emissions that fuck up the atmosphere. I don’t know the exact stats offhand, but the extra CO2 is accountable for something like 2/3 of the added heat trapping effect.

That said, I’m a pragmatist and generally pro-datacenters… so I don’t have much room to bitch other than wishing we would spend a lot more on cheap, renewable power vs dumbass stuff like keeping money-losing coal plants online.
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won’t BGates and Big Tech just keep purchasing their carbon offsets to mitigate apparent CO2 emissions?
 
sfsuphysics said:
Plants need water too, give them too much of it and see what happens...

SMH.
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Plants are pretty tolerant of very high CO2.

(source: indoor greenhouse use CO2 to increase yields is well established in journals)

If yall want take this thread to biological systems we can, but jfc, are seriously gonna debate this here?
 
Shoganai said:
Yes, I'm fully aware. And too much of it in the atmosphere causes issues.
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If yall want take this thread to biological systems we can, but jfc, are seriously gonna debate this here?
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Nothing to debate, well for me at least as I didn't want to get into it, just debunking the silly implication that because plants use something any amount is okay.
 
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sfsuphysics said:
Right.. because saying "CO2 is literally plant food" isnt any sort of implication that CO2 can't be bad at any level
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Another straw man. Quote someone here who said it's fine at every level. You won't be able to, so please stop doing this.
 
People should try looking at eg. what the CO2 levels in the atmosphere were in the Jurassic age.
The laws of physics has not chaged since then.
 
erek said:
are these numbers before or after taking into account the carbon offsets?


is everyone just saying plant more trees or what?
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Covid-19 peak there was very little driving and dramatically lower production. Climate scientists said even that wasn't enough.

Whatever we think is possible, probably isn't. But economic destruction certainly is possible.
 
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