{"id":816,"date":"2026-05-13T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:40:17","slug":"datacentres-using-6-of-electricity-supply-in-uk-and-us-research-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Datacentres using 6% of electricity supply in UK and US, research says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlash<\/p>\n<p>Datacentres are consuming 6% of electricity in the UK and US, with the growing strain of AI on energy supplies prompting community resistance, according to research.<\/p>\n<p>The proportion of electricity used by vast warehouses stacked with microchips to power AI and the internet has risen 15% worldwide in the past two years as annual global investment in datacentres approaches $1tn (\u00a3740bn) \u2013 nearly 1% of the global economy, according to the International Data Center Association (IDCA).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/13\/datacentres-electricity-consumption-uk-us-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}