Summary
These places can now use about one and a half gigawatts of power and will grow to almost eight gigawatts by 2030.
The government helps by giving special rules and clean energy ideas.
Key Points
3 points1
Power use grew from about 375 megawatts in 2020 to 1.57 gigawatts in 2026.
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Goal: reach nearly 8 gigawatts of power for computers by 2030.
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Big money from companies and the government is being spent to build more.
New Words to Learn
4 wordsgigawatt
a huge amount of electricity, enough to power many homes
megawatt
a smaller but still big amount of electricity
data centre
a big building that holds many computers to store and send information
clean energy
power that does not pollute the air, like sunshine or wind
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