AI Data Center Energy & Infrastructure Dashboard

The interactive dashboard below presents a comprehensive analysis of AI data center growth challenges, with a focus on energy infrastructure. It illustrates how data center power demand in the US is projected to grow at approximately 16% annually, reaching around 130 GW by 2028—representing a 160% increase from 2024 levels.

The visualization highlights a critical mismatch between data center construction timelines (2-3 years) and power infrastructure development (4-8 years), creating significant bottlenecks. Energy efficiency comparisons show specialized AI chips (NPUs/TPUs) delivering about 6 TFLOPS per watt versus 4 TFLOPS/W for GPUs—a 1.5x efficiency advantage that could help mitigate energy consumption.

The dashboard also details the renewable energy procurement landscape (with solar accounting for 29 GW and wind for 13 GW), typical construction costs ($7-12 million per MW), and quantifies how power availability is extending project timelines by 2-4 years in key markets like Northern Virginia. Together, these visualizations illustrate how power infrastructure has become the primary constraint on AI computing expansion, requiring coordinated policy, technological innovation, and investment to address.