{"schemaVersion":"report-figure-v1","report":{"slug":"data-centre-demand-denominators","title":"Two Denominators, One Data Centre Forecast","url":"https://solaranalytica.com/data-centre-demand-denominators","datePublished":"2026-07-24","lastReviewed":"2026-07-24"},"figure":{"id":"data-centre-consumption-step-change","title":"Australian data centre electricity consumption, Step Change","unit":"TWh","provenance":{"dataSource":"Oxford Economics Australia for AEMO","dataType":"Published base-year estimate and forecast","scope":"Australia and the NEM","statistic":"Electricity consumption","interval":"FY25-FY50"},"caption":"Australian data centre electricity consumption, Step Change (Oxford Economics Australia for AEMO). The square is the published FY25 base-year estimate; hollow points and the dashed line are forecasts. Growth averages 25.1 per cent a year. Of the 34.5 TWh forecast for FY50, 33.8 TWh sits on the NEM.","series":[{"label":"FY25","value":3.9,"basis":"derived"},{"label":"FY30","value":12,"basis":"forecast"},{"label":"FY50","value":34.5,"basis":"forecast"}]},"csv":"https://solaranalytica.com/reports/data-centre-demand-denominators/figures/data-centre-consumption-step-change/data.csv","publicationState":"fixed-edition","boundary":"The figure remains bound to the report edition. A newer upstream release creates a review obligation and never rewrites these rows automatically."}