The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Huge wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

How much power do you think datacentres gobble up?

Tens of megawatts.

I think that's a little on the high side, megawatts, yes.

3-4MW is about right for each of the datacentres we have servers in,
what fraction of those MW are sipped during the peaks of the sine wave?
How many "big" UK datacentres? 40-50 maybe?