Data centres take 5% of US power, three times the world average

So what

Globally, data centres are still a rounding error at 1.5% of electricity, but the US share has nearly doubled in five years to 5%. The real constraint is local: in Virginia and Ireland they draw a fifth to a quarter of all power, so grid connections, not chips, become the bottleneck. Hyperscalers and utilities should treat site-level power availability as a strategic asset and price it accordingly.