Bloomberg: U.S. data centers could use 20% of electricity by 2035
Polymarket · x · 2026-07-21
Bloomberg projects that U.S. data centers will consume about 20% of the country’s electricity by 2035, up from 5.9% today.
The post is a concise market datapoint about how quickly AI-driven compute demand is reshaping power usage and infrastructure planning.
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