Nine separate cables. Each cable’s width is proportional to annual electricity in terawatt-hours, all on one zero-based scale. Lengths and loops carry no data. Copper is the 2024 historical modeled estimate. Blue cables are projections: 2028 and 2030 Reference, then six alternative 2030 outcomes that should never be added together. Use the arrow keys, Home and End to read each cable; Escape dismisses the reading.

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Data-center electricity

Cable width shows annual U.S. data-center electricity use on one scale. Copper: 2024 historical estimate. Blue: 2028 and 2030 projections; six alternatives are separate, never additive. Cable lengths and loops are decoration. Modeled estimates, not metered totals; crypto mining excluded.

LBNL / U.S. DOE, June 2026, CC BY 4.0.

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