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ESIG LLTF Webinar: Electricity Demand Growth and Data Centers: A Guide for the Perplexed
March 24 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Jonathan Koomey
**PLEASE NOTE – THIS IS A MEMBERS-ONLY WEBINAR**
Featured Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Koomey, President of Koomey Analytics
About the Webinar: This webinar will describe the results from a recently released joint white paper between Koomey Analytics and the Bipartisan Policy Center. It will explore the accuracy of narratives that data centers are causing growth in demand for electricity, finding that there is no evidence for explosive growth at the national level, though there are instances of rapid growth in a few states. This report also describes the key drivers of load growth for data centers, focusing on growth in computing services and improvements in efficiency. Both these drivers are subject to deep uncertainty. The report puts data centers’ projected growth into perspective, comparing it to load growth in a high electrification scenario. This comparison shows that even for an extremely high projection of data center electricity use, data centers are likely to be only one of several important contributors to load growth in the years ahead.
About the Speaker: Jonathan Koomey is president of Koomey Analytics and is one of the leading international experts on the economics of climate solutions and the energy and environmental effects of information technology. Dr. Koomey holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, and an A.B. in History and Science from Harvard University. He was a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for many years and has been a visiting professor/researcher at Stanford University, Yale University, and the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author or coauthor of more than 200 articles and reports and ten books, including Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving and Solving Climate Change: A Guide for Learners and Leaders. More at http://www.koomey.com.
Registration Cost: FREE
Q&A Session: We will be using the Slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link.
