Global IT spending will reach $5.5 trillion in 2025, but the true cost will not be economic, but energy-related. In the Orbital Vision 2026 editorial, Pepe Marqués, Dean at UDIT, analyzes how to prevent Artificial Intelligence from ruining the planet.
Artificial Intelligence is an unprecedented investment driver, but also an insatiable energy devourer. While the International Energy Agency projects that data center consumption will reach 945 TWh in 2030the electrical grid is beginning to show its seams. In his editorial column, Pepe Marqués Morán sends a strong message: sustainability is no longer an ethical option, but a technical imperative.
Spain: Data power or bottleneck?
The analysis highlights a historic opportunity: Spain is positioning itself as one of the data center hubs with the greatest projection in Europe, thanks to a renewable mix that already reaches 56%. However, Marqués warns about the risk of dying of success if the network’s capacity, which is already at its limit, is not managed. To support this growth, effective electrical planning is needed that integrates data centers as flexible assets.
In Orbital Vision 2026the UDIT expert outlines the necessary roadmap: ensure clean power, optimize cooling, demand transparency in metrics and train talent capable of designing low-carbon footprint solutions. The column also focuses on the quantum computing as the great hope for future efficiency, insisting that “true innovation is no longer measured by the speed with which we advance, but by the footprint we leave in doing so.”
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