LIVE … lattes of Big Tech capex so far todayLIVE … GWh used by the world's data centres todaySLOUGH 65% of the town's electricity goes to data centresGB GRID 50.8 GW of data centres in the connection queueCAPEX $720–745bn Big Four spend guided for 2026HYPERSCALE 1,136 worldwide, up from 430 in 2018PIPELINE 504 more hyperscale sites plannedUK ~100 new data centres could be built in 5 years2030 945 TWh world data centre demand forecast, IEALOUISIANA 5 GW Meta's planned Hyperion campusWATER 155bn glasses: Google's 2024 consumptionMAPPED 4,004 data centre sites from open data
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