# Resources

Explore seminal resources on data centers, energy consumption, and their environmental impact. This curated collection includes statistical sites, research reports, journalism studies, and industry surveys.

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Source
Description
Link
IEA – Data Centres and Data Transmission Networks Tracker
IEA
Gold-standard global overview of data centre and network energy use, with historical trends, projections, and policy levers you can quote directly for context and charts.
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IEA – Electricity 2024 (Data Centres & AI Section)
IEA
Flagship report that quantifies how AI, data centres, and crypto could push electricity demand through 2026, including scenario charts you can use to frame "AI vs the grid" futures.
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Aterio – US Data Centers Inventory
aterio.io
Commercial dataset with granular, state-level facility listings (stage, provider, size, estimated power demand) across all US data centres, giving you a quasi-ground-truth backbone for mapping and analysis.
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DataCenterMap – Global Data Center Directory
datacentermap.com
Crowd-sourced directory used by the industry to browse colocation and cloud facilities worldwide, useful for cross-checking locations, owners, and basic attributes when you zoom out beyond the US.
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Baxtel – Data Center Map & Database
baxtel.com
Another major directory with a strong US map and detailed facility pages (power, status, providers) that you can mine for example sites, regional clusters, and cross-validation.
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Business Insider – "Where data centers use the most electricity"
businessinsider.com
Investigative package (with an interactive map of 1,200+ US sites and estimated power use) that's great for showing how journalism visualizes data-center externalities for a general audience.
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Carbon Brief – China data centres, AI and electricity demand explainer
carbonbrief.org
Deep dive on how China is trying to manage data-centre and AI loads on the grid, giving you a policy-rich international case study on regulation, curtailment, and "computing power" targets.
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Uptime Institute – Global Data Center Survey
uptimeinstitute.com
Annual industry survey covering outages, energy efficiency, sustainability metrics, and capacity trends, useful for grounding your narrative in what operators themselves say they're struggling with.
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Wikipedia – Data Center
wikipedia.org
Solid primer on what a data centre is (tiers, cooling, redundancy, PUE, etc.), which is perfect for quick definitions and diagrams when you need to explain basics without diving into paywalled reports.
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Wikipedia – Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
wikipedia.org
Canonical definition of the main efficiency metric used in data-centre energy debates, giving you a clean formula, typical ranges, and key critiques you can reference in your design and analysis.
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