New workload demands are turning data handling into a system-level design challenge rather than a back-end afterthought.

News cycles are increasingly dominated by debates about AI’s impact on power systems, consumer energy prices, grid emissions and grid resilience.

At the end of 2024, data centers accounted for approximately 1-1.2 % of global electricity use and around 0.4 % of greenhouse gas emissions, with figures projected to rise as artificial intelligence ...