Jurisdiction
Global: AI Infrastructure Atlas
Global carries 4 records on the AI Infrastructure Atlas as of September 2026: 2 verified at a primary source, 0 reported, 0 announced with no document yet, 0 searched and absent, and 2 open questions. By kind: figure of record 2, open question 2.
Figure of record
2 records
Measured efficiency has not moved: a weighted average PUE of 1.54
Global · verified 15 September 2026
The weighted average annual PUE reported by respondents in 2025 was 1.54.
The global figure of record: 415 TWh of data centre electricity in 2024
Global · verified 15 September 2026
Data centres accounted for around 1.5 percent of world electricity consumption in 2024, or 415 TWh.
Open question
2 records
Open question: is AI training load interruptible, and who gets to say so
Global · verified 15 September 2026
China's East Data West Computing sorts workloads by latency tolerance, which is the closest thing in this atlas to a flexibility rule, and it is a siting policy rather than a dispatch right.
Open question: who pays if a data center cancels after the grid was rebuilt for it
Global · verified 15 September 2026
Britain's Gate 2 test asks whether a project is ready and needed before it holds a queue position, which reduces speculative requests but does not price a later cancellation.
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What has actually been measured in Global?
Measured efficiency has not moved: a weighted average PUE of 1.54 (verified); The global figure of record: 415 TWh of data centre electricity in 2024 (verified). Each record page quotes the document and says what it changes for an operator, a utility or a community.
What has nobody settled in Global?
Open question: is AI training load interruptible, and who gets to say so (open question); Open question: who pays if a data center cancels after the grid was rebuilt for it (open question). Each record page quotes the document and says what it changes for an operator, a utility or a community.
What has nobody settled in Global?
Open question: is AI training load interruptible, and who gets to say so; Open question: who pays if a data center cancels after the grid was rebuilt for it. The ledger poses these and does not answer them.
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- United States13
- European Union7
- Ireland2
- Netherlands1
- Germany1
- United Kingdom3
- Singapore1
- China2
- Malaysia1
- Global4
By kind
- Grid and large load rules4
- Water rules6
- Reporting and efficiency duties8
- Siting, permitting and tax7
- Figure of record6
- Open question4
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