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December 31, 2018

2 entries published that day, the everything feed by the day each row entered the record; the timeline lists milestones alone, by the day they happened. Each is one sourced row of the record: what happened, where, and where it came from. Nothing here is an article and nothing is unapproved.

  1. United States Reference figure

    LBNL, 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report. Electricity used by US data centers in 2018, about: 76 TWh a year. All US data centers, cryptocurrency mining excluded, electricity use for 2018 as the report models it, 2018. LBNL, 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report primary source (content date)

  2. United States Reference figure

    LBNL, 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report. Share of total US electricity consumption used by data centers in 2018: 1.9 percent of US electricity consumption. All US data centers, cryptocurrency mining excluded, as a share of total annual US electricity consumption in 2018, 2018. LBNL, 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report primary source (content date)

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