according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. That’s like adding more than the equivalent of Japan to global electricity consumption in each of the next three years.

Data centers require massive quantities of electricity. In December 2024, the US Department of Energy (DOE) released a report stating that data center energy usage will “double or triple by 2028 ...

but the causal relationships between web design and energy use remain unclear. Spending time online has become a near-universal part of our daily routine. But something we perhaps don’t think ...