Data
Data and methodology
Indicators with their sources, capacity in our tracked coverage, and open JSON exports. Every number keeps its definition, date and source. Unknown values stay unknown, never zero.
Country indicators
| Country | Indicator | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | Data centre IT connected load (Borderstep estimate) Third-party estimate cited in federal strategy. | 2,980 MW Modelled estimate | 2025 | bmftr.bund.de (opens in a new tab) |
| Germany | Data centre electricity consumption About 4% of gross electricity consumption. | 21 TWh Official source | 2025 | bmftr.bund.de (opens in a new tab) |
| Germany | Projected IT connected load (Borderstep) Projection, not a target. | 5,000 MW Modelled estimate | 2030 | bmftr.bund.de (opens in a new tab) |
| Ireland | Data centre share of metered electricity consumption | 23% Official source | 2025 | cso.ie (opens in a new tab) |
| Ireland | Data centre metered electricity consumption 2024 restated as 6,973 GWh in the 2025 release (6,969 GWh in the 2024 release). | 7,663 GWh Official source | 2025 | cso.ie (opens in a new tab) |
| Ireland | Forecast data centre electricity demand EirGrid forecast cited by CRU, from 9.4 TWh in 2025. | 14.6 TWh Modelled estimate | 2034 | cru.ie (opens in a new tab) |
| Malaysia | Actual electricity use of 20 operating data centres, Johor | 919.97 MW Official source | March 2026 | mediadigitaljohor.gov.my (opens in a new tab) |
| Malaysia | Approved data centre capacity, 28 projects, Johor Approvals, not built capacity. | 5,628 MW Official source | May 2026 | mediadigitaljohor.gov.my (opens in a new tab) |
| Malaysia | Investment in projects approved by Data Centre Task Force 27 projects: 16 Johor, 10 Selangor, 1 Negeri Sembilan. | MYR 225.97 billion Third-party reported | to July 2026 | thestar.com.my (opens in a new tab) |
| Saudi Arabia | Operational data centre capacity Basis not defined. 440 MW in 2025, 68 MW in 2021. | 467 MW Official source | 2026-Q1 | mcit.gov.sa (opens in a new tab) |
| Singapore | Data centre capacity "Over 1.4 gigawatts", basis not stated. | at least 1.4 GW Official source | 2024-05 | imda.gov.sg (opens in a new tab) |
| Singapore | DC-CFA2 provisional allocation Four operators, 50 MW each. | 200 MW Official source | 2026-08 | edb.gov.sg (opens in a new tab) |
| United Kingdom | Colocation IT capacity (maximum rated IT load), Great Britain Modelled estimate, colocation only, excludes enterprise data centres. | 1.6 GW Modelled estimate | autumn 2024 | gov.uk (opens in a new tab) |
| United Kingdom | Colocation IT capacity, London (ITL1) Same DSIT estimate. | 1,048 MW Modelled estimate | autumn 2024 | gov.uk (opens in a new tab) |
| United Kingdom | Demand connection applications in GB queue Up from 41 GW in under a year, all demand types, largely data centres. | 125 GW Official source | mid 2025 | ofgem.gov.uk (opens in a new tab) |
| United States | Data centre electricity consumption About 4.4% of total US electricity. | 176 TWh Official source | 2023 | energy.gov (opens in a new tab) |
| United States | Projected data centre electricity consumption (range) Range of 325 to 580 TWh, 6.7% to 12% of US electricity. Projection. | 325 to 580 TWh Modelled estimate | 2028 | energy.gov (opens in a new tab) |
Indicators come from different publishers and methods. Do not compare them across countries without reading each note.
Capacity in tracked public coverage
Tracked public coverage, not a national total. Sums of reported, project-level figures from 9 of the 27 published project records we track for all published project records. Each metric and each delivery class is summed on its own and never added to another. Confirmed operating capacity never includes design or ultimate capacity. Delayed projects are never counted as under construction now. Campus and phase figures are not double counted. Ranges and upper bounds are not summed. Unknown values are not counted as zero.
| Metric | Delivery class | Sum of tracked records | Contributing records |
|---|---|---|---|
| Investment | Reported project investment Project-level investment in one currency. Components of a total are not added again. Company-wide programmes are excluded. | USD 92 million |
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| IT power | Provisional capacity allocation Capacity provisionally allocated by an authority. This is not planning permission and not built capacity. | 200 MW | |
| IT power | Announced or design capacity (not delivered) Ultimate, design or announced capacity. Not delivered capacity. Never added to confirmed figures. | at least 420 MW Includes a lower-bound figure, so the sum is a minimum. |
|
| IT power | Delayed or on hold (current stage) Projects currently delayed or on hold, with the capacity they were reported to deliver. | 52 MW | |
| Total facility power | Announced or design capacity (not delivered) Ultimate, design or announced capacity. Not delivered capacity. Never added to confirmed figures. | 1,200 MW |
Figures not counted (27) and why
- Abilene AI campus at Lancium Clean Campus (Stargate Abilene, Texas)
- Floor or land area about 4,000,000 sq ft: Area figures describe different things (site, floor or data hall area). Shown per record, never summed.
- Abilene AI campus phase 1 (two buildings)
- Total facility power at least 200 MW: Marked not summable by research: Phase power capacity, lower bound ("200+"). Parent campus figure includes this phase, so not eligible for roll-up.
- AirTrunk JHB1 (Johor Bahru)
- Floor or land area 21,900 sq m: Area figures describe different things (site, floor or data hall area). Shown per record, never summed.
- AirTrunk JHB2 (Iskandar Puteri, Johor)
- Investment at least MYR 9.7 billion: Scope is company, not one physical project. Not attributable to this asset.
- DataVolt Oxagon AI data centre campus (NEOM)
- Other 1.5 GW: Basis unclear (not stated as IT, facility, grid or thermal). Never summed.
- DataVolt Oxagon phase 1 (360 MW, incl. 100 MW with HUMAIN)
- Other 360 MW: Basis unclear (not stated as IT, facility, grid or thermal). Never summed.
- Other 100 MW: Basis unclear (not stated as IT, facility, grid or thermal). Never summed.
- Equinix DB7x (Blanchardstown, Dublin)
- Floor or land area 1,322 sq m: Area figures describe different things (site, floor or data hall area). Shown per record, never summed.
- Investment USD 78 million: Component of ie-equinix-db7x-blanchardstown--investment-total. The total is counted once, components are never added again.
- Investment USD 14 million: Component of ie-equinix-db7x-blanchardstown--investment-total. The total is counted once, components are never added again.
- Google Dietzenbach data centre (Hesse)
- Investment EUR 5.5 billion: Scope is company, not one physical project. Not attributable to this asset.
- Google Elmina data centre (Selangor)
- Investment USD 2 billion: Scope is company, not one physical project. Not attributable to this asset.
- Google Grange Castle data centre extension (phase 3, Dublin)
- Floor or land area 72,400 sq m: Area figures describe different things (site, floor or data hall area). Shown per record, never summed.
- Google Waltham Cross data centre (Hertfordshire)
- Investment GBP 5 billion: Scope is company, not one physical project. Not attributable to this asset.
- Meta Richland Parish data center (Hyperion, Louisiana)
- Other 5 GW: Basis unclear (not stated as IT, facility, grid or thermal). Never summed.
- Investment at least USD 50 billion: Marked not summable by research: USD billions, lower bound, regional investment by Meta. Period not stated.
- Microsoft Fairwater 1 (Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin)
- Floor or land area 1,200,000 sq ft: Area figures describe different things (site, floor or data hall area). Shown per record, never summed.
- Microsoft Mount Pleasant campus (Fairwater, Wisconsin)
- Investment USD 4.7 billion: Modelled estimate. Totals use reported figures only.
- Microsoft Rhenish mining area data centre cluster (Bergheim, Bedburg, Elsdorf)
- Investment EUR 3.2 billion: Scope is company, not one physical project. Not attributable to this asset.
- Nscale Loughton AI data centre (Essex)
- Grid connection up to 90 MW: Upper bound only ("up to"). Not added to totals.
- QTS Cambois data centre campus (Blyth, Northumberland)
- Investment GBP 10 billion: Marked not summable by research: Headline development value for the whole campus as reported. Period not stated.
- Floor or land area at least 540,000 sq m: Area figures describe different things (site, floor or data hall area). Shown per record, never summed.
- Stargate UAE AI infrastructure cluster (1 GW)
- Other 1 GW: Basis unclear (not stated as IT, facility, grid or thermal). Never summed.
- Investment USD 30 billion: Marked not summable by research: USD billions as reported by Reuters. Not confirmed by G42 in sources reviewed.
- Stargate UAE first 200 MW
- Other 200 MW: Basis unclear (not stated as IT, facility, grid or thermal). Never summed.
- UAE-US AI Campus (Abu Dhabi)
- Other 5 GW: Basis unclear (not stated as IT, facility, grid or thermal). Never summed.
- Vantage DUB11 Profile Park campus (Clondalkin, Dublin)
- Investment EUR 972.2 million: Marked not summable by research: Accumulated cost to end 2025 before impairment, EUR millions. Project described as a €1 billion development.
Method: capacity rules. Company-wide investment, area figures and third-party market estimates are never included in these sums.
Capacity rules in short
- IT power, total facility power, grid connection, thermal duty, storage power and storage energy are separate classes and never added together.
- Announced, permitted, under construction and operating figures are shown separately.
- A campus figure and its phases are never both counted. Leased capacity is one physical asset.
- Figures with an unclear basis are classed "other" and never summed. Cloud regions have no MW figure.
- Company-wide investment and third-party market estimates are not added to project sums.
Full method: methodology and the capacity definitions guide.
Open JSON exports (v1)
Read-only, versioned files of published records with stable ids. Rebuilt on every release, last research import 18 Oct 2026. Field definitions are in the JSON schemas. Please attribute CoolPower Index and link back.
| Dataset | Records | File |
|---|---|---|
| Catalogue of datasets | 12 | /data/v1/index.json |
| Country market profiles | 7 | /data/v1/countries.json |
| Data centre project, campus and phase records with metric claims | 27 | /data/v1/projects.json |
| Operator, hyperscaler and developer profiles | 11 | /data/v1/operators.json |
| Cloud regions (service areas, no MW figures) | 62 | /data/v1/cloud-regions.json |
| Policy records with status, dates and deadlines | 14 | /data/v1/policies.json |
| Technology guides | 10 | /data/v1/technologies.json |
| Guides and checklists | 5 | /data/v1/resources.json |
| Supplier listings with researched evidence where available | 66 | /data/v1/suppliers.json |
| Every published numeric claim with value kind, scale, normalised value, qualification and roll-up eligibility | 66 | /data/v1/claims.json |
| Canonical events: one entry per event with linked entities and its source group | 49 | /data/v1/events.json |
| Corrections and revisions with before and after summaries and sources | 12 | /data/v1/revisions.json |
| Capacity roll-up rows with contributing records and exclusions (tracked public coverage, not national totals) | 5 | /data/v1/totals.json |
| Search index | all public pages | /data/v1/search-index.json |
Breaking changes get a new version path. v1 stays available. Draft records, private booking data and contact details are never exported.