This presentation will discuss recent findings as explored in the "Innovation for Cool Earth Forum" (ICEF) Roadmap. This resource examines data centers' energy use, strategies for improving data centers' energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions from data centers, strategies for using data centers to accelerate deployment of low-carbon power, data centers' water use and government data center policies around the world.

Investment in data centers is booming. Several forecasts project that trillions of dollars will be spent on data centers and related infrastructure in the years ahead. These investments are fueled by the explosive growth in attention to artificial intelligence (AI), as well as data centers' central role in much of the modern economy, including in ecommerce, email systems, video streaming and more. This surging investment is raising concerns about data centers' energy and environmental impacts since data centers use enormous amounts of electricity, creating challenges for electric grids in many regions.