{"id":6775,"date":"2025-06-10T11:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heliview.com\/green-it\/?p=6775"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:46:54","slug":"whitepaper-heating-europe-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heliview.com\/cloud-ai-publieke-sector\/whitepaper-heating-europe-with-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitepaper: Heating Europe with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Leafcloud, the sustainable European cloud provider based in Amsterdam, released &#8220;Heating Europe with AI: Why Europe Doesn&#8217;t Need AI Factories,&#8221; a whitepaper demonstrating how distributed computing infrastructure can meet Europe&#8217;s exploding AI demand without the grid constraints, capital requirements, or climate costs of traditional datacenters. Europe has a choice: The International Energy Agency projects global datacenter electricity demand will more than double from 415 TWh in 2024 to 945 TWh by 2030 \u2013 a 530 TWh increase representing 127% growth in just six years. This is equivalent to adding Japan&#8217;s entire electricity consumption to the grid. This demand shock is already forcing development moratoriums in Dublin, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt. In advanced economies across Europe, datacenters are projected to account for over 20% of all new electricity demand growth through 2030. 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