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EIA's long-term outlook separates server electricity from the cooling and ventilation that support it, exposing a wider facilities load than a server-only forecast captures.
Data-center capacity models need parallel assumptions for installed server stock, operational power draw, cooling intensity, weather, and efficiency rather than one headline demand curve.
A new EIA pilot will collect data on energy sources, electricity use, site characteristics, server metrics, and cooling systems across major U.S. data-center regions.
Better measured load and cooling data can reduce the gap between announced capacity, utility forecasts, and actual operating demand.
EIA projects commercial computing electricity use to outgrow efficiency gains and add cooling and ventilation demand across data-center floorspace.
Utilities and facility designers need to model computing and its supporting building systems as a growing base load rather than a small office end use.
EIA building data show that offices with data centers use more electricity for computing and cooling than comparable offices without server facilities.
Distributed server rooms can add meaningful facilities load outside the large standalone campuses that dominate utility forecasts and market headlines.