The period of June–July 2025 saw significant global developments in green data center efficiency amid surging demand from cloud and AI services. Analysts warn that the rapid growth of artificial intelligence workloads is driving data center power usage to new heights, straining electrical grids and complicating sustainability efforts datacenterfrontier.com datacenterfrontier.com. Deloitte forecasted global data center electricity consumption to nearly double from ~536 TWh in 2025 to over 1,000 TWh by 2030 datacenterfrontier.com. Similarly, S&P Global projected U.S. data center power demand rising ~12% annually through 2030 – growth that could double the sector’s carbon emissions as roughly 60% of new demand may be met by natural gas under current renewable buildout rates datacenterfrontier.com. Industry experts have dubbed this a potential “climate strategy crisis,” where data center expansion outpaces Big Tech’s net-zero goals datacenterfrontier.com. A BloombergNEF report highlighted that data centers already consumed about 1.4% of global electricity supply in 2024 datacenterknowledge.com, a share poised to climb further.
