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December 31, 2023

4 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.

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    LBNL, 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report. Direct water consumed on site by US data centers in 2023: 66 billion liters a year. All US data centers (internal, colocation and hyperscale; cryptocurrency mining excluded), water consumed on site in 2023, chiefly cooling water evaporated or discharged, modeled from energy use and water usage effectiveness; hyperscale and colocation facilities account for 84 percent of the total and internal data centers 12 percent, 2023. LBNL, 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report primary source (content date)

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    LBNL, 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report. Share of total US electricity consumption used by data centers in 2023: 4.4 percent of US electricity consumption. All US data centers, cryptocurrency mining excluded, as a share of total US electricity consumption in 2023, as the report states it, 2023. LBNL, 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report primary source (content date)

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    LBNL, 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report. Electricity used by US data centers in 2023: 176 TWh a year. All US data centers (servers, storage, network equipment and infrastructure; cryptocurrency mining excluded), electricity use for 2023 as the report models it from shipment data and operating assumptions, 2023. LBNL, 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report primary source (content date)

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    EIA, Table 5A, 2023 edition. Average monthly electricity consumption per residential customer, United States, 2023: 855 kWh a month per residential customer. Every US residential electric customer, EIA Form 861 (schedules 4A to 4D, 861S and 861U), average monthly consumption for 2023; grid electricity sold per customer, not total household use, 2023. EIA, Table 5A, 2023 edition primary source (content date)

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