AI power demand roughly doubling by 2030
LIVE from NEARCON Day 1 In SF (The Rollup)
“2024 took about 415 terawatt [hours] of capacity for energy… The International Energy Association predicts their base case predictions about 930 terawatt hours by 2030.” — 03:09:26
Context: Citing IEA base-case data-center demand projections; also notes ERCOT (Texas) capacity requests growing ~300% on a “very fragile” grid.