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Reporting on AI, data compression, and the infrastructure that has to carry both. Figures are sourced, and the decompressor counts.

18 September 2026
AI infrastructure still pays for the byte
IEA projects data-center electricity to rise from 415 TWh in 2024 to about 945 TWh by 2030. Meta's training clusters already tie 24,576 GPUs together at 400 Gbps. Lossless compression that counts the decompressor is capacity those builds do not purchase.