Global Electricity Usage of Communication Technology Projected to Spike by 2030

Estimated electricity use in annual terawatt hours (TWh) by area of communications technology

This area chart shows an estimation of the global electricity usage that can be attributed to Communication Technology between 2010 and 2030. Energy use projections are based on energy use data from 2010 through 2014. The data is divided into four main categories; consumer device use, networks use, data centers use, and production.

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Projections based off energy use data from 2010 through 2014.

Source: Anders S. G. Andrae & Thomas Edler, "On Global Electricity Usage of Communication Technology: Trends to 2030," Challenges 2015.Get the data