Monitored theme · Sustainability
Clean Energy and AI Energy Demand
Monitored since June 2016 · 121 temporal technology analyses
TAIME Score over the years
Yearly average of the TAIME Score across published temporal technology analyses. Only years with data for this theme are shown.
Latest TAIME Score
79/100
in the September 2026 analysis
| Year | TAIME Score | Analyses |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 58 | 1 |
| 2017 | 58 | 4 |
| 2018 | 60 | 11 |
| 2019 | 59 | 8 |
| 2020 | 63 | 16 |
| 2021 | 66 | 24 |
| 2022 | 69 | 24 |
| 2023 | 68 | 13 |
| 2024 | 73 | 5 |
| 2025 | 74 | 5 |
| 2026 | 71 | 15 |
From the latest analysis · September 2026
AI Energy Demand Creates Structural Grid Constraints That Will Bind AI Expansion
The binding constraint on AI growth is no longer chips or capital: it is grid capacity. Signals indicate that by 2028, US data centers may have the server hardware but lack the electricity to run it, with the projected gap between grid-deliverable capacity and AI power demand potentially exceeding 170GW by 2030.
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