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Data appendix

The indicator set with its sources, the source registers, the licences of every kind of material and the formats of the edition.

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Contents
  1. ·Edition home
  2. ·Executive summary
  3. 1Technology rests on a few physical inputs
  4. 2Key findings
  5. 3Systems and sectors at baseline
  6. 4Risks and capability
  7. 5Local grid constraint that overlaps a chip or mineral supply constraint
  8. 6Readings from the other desks
  9. 7The 2027 agenda
  10. 8Systems in depth
  11. AMethodology
  12. BData appendix
    1. B.1 The indicator set
    2. B.2 Global source register
    3. B.3 Regional reading, ten regional clusters
    4. B.4 Regional card: Ireland data centres and the grid
    5. B.5 How countries appear in the global edition
    6. B.6 Licences
    7. B.7 Formats and provenance
  13. CReferences and record
  14. ·Complete edition, for print

B.1The indicator set

Table B.1Global baseline indicator set
IndicatorValueUnitYearStateSource
Data centre electricity use415TWh2024Reported1
Share of global electricity≈ 1.5%2024Reported1
Data centre use, 2030 Base Case≈ 945TWh2030Estimated1
US share of data centre use≈ 45%2024Reported1
US electricity growth from data centres≈ 50%2025Reported2
Irish data centre share of metered electricity22%2024Reported12
Average top-refiner share, excluding rare earths72%2025Reported3
Global semiconductor sales (WSTS)795.6USD billion2025Reported4
Global semiconductor sales (SIA)791.7USD billion2025Reported5
EU forecast chip share11.7%2030Estimated7
US CHIPS manufacturing incentives39USD billion2022Reported43
EU enterprises buying cloud services52.74%2025Reported9
EU enterprises using artificial intelligence19.95%2025Reported10
Private AI investment, United States285.88USD billion2025Reported11
People using the internet6.3billion2026Reported13
Indicators, CSVIndicators, JSON

B.2Global source register

The governed source set behind this edition. Each source keeps its authority, coverage, cadence and role; categories describe origin, not truth.

Domains bound by the register

  • AIC
  • ENE
  • INF
  • MIN
  • TRD
  • DAT
  • FIN
  • DEV
  • SYS
  • CLI
Table B.3Global source register
SourceCategoryCoveragePeriodCadenceRole
IEA Energy and AI1intergovernmental agencyglobal2024one-offdata centre load
IEA Global Energy Review 20262intergovernmental agencyglobal2025annualelectricity growth
IEA Critical Minerals Outlook 20263intergovernmental agencyglobal2025annualrefining concentration
WSTS release4industry statistics bodyglobal2025quarterlychip sales
SIA release5industry associationglobal2025annualchip sales
CHIPS and Science Act text43legislatureUS2022one-offfunding totals
NIST CHIPS page43national standards bodyUS2026rollingpost-close, context only
ECA special report7audit institutionEU2025one-offchip target
Eurostat cloud and AI use910statistical officeEU2025annualenterprise use
CSO data centre release12statistical officeIreland2024annuallocal load
Stanford AI Index11university instituteglobal2025annualprivate investment

B.3Regional reading, ten regional clusters

Map plates follow with the regional Baseline Editions, when boundary sources and public-safe resolutions are bound. This page gives the regional reading in table form and ranks no region.

Table B.4Regional reading, ten regional clusters
RegionPrincipal hazardsSystems most exposedBaseline evidence
North Americadata-centre load; chip fundingpower, chipsIEA12; CHIPS and Science Act43
South Americaconnectivity and power for new sitespower, networksregional statistics (not bound)
Europechip target gap; cloud and AI use; AI Factorieschips, cloud, powerECA7; Eurostat910; EuroHPC15
Eurasianot bound in this editionnot boundregional statistics (not bound)
Middle East and North Africanot bound in this editionnot boundregional statistics (not bound)
Africaaccess gap in connectivitynetworksITU13
South Asiaaccess gap in connectivitynetworksITU13
East Asiachip sales growth; refining concentrationchips, mineralsWSTS4; IEA3
ASEANnew large AI sitespower, computeEpoch AI14
Oceania-Pacificnot bound in this editionnot boundregional statistics (not bound)

B.4Regional card: Ireland data centres and the grid

  • country
  • grid
  • data centres
  • metered electricity
Systems in view
power, data centres, cloud services
Defining facts
data centres took 22% of metered electricity in 2024, up from 5% in 201512
Couplings
AIC → ENE → INF
Capability evidence
a public annual statistical release12
Gaps
GWh values and the definition of a data centre were not on the page read
Agenda items
R-03 · R-01

Data centres took 22% of metered electricity in 2024 and 21% in 2023 [12].

POWER

Share of metered electricity

The share was 5% in 2015, so it rose by 17 percentage points over nine years [12].

GROWTH

From 5% to 22%

The release covers metered electricity and gives no definition of a data centre on the page read [12].

LIMITS

Metered electricity only

B.5How countries appear in the global edition

Countries enter the technology infrastructure edition through the technology chapters of their own national editions, on one card grammar. They are read against peer distributions and thresholds, never placed in a league table.

Table B.5How countries appear in the global edition
Card fieldWhat it showsSource
WEFH+B stateeach core system against peer distribution bandsnational edition
Couplingsthe national dependency matrixnational edition
Risk objectsthe national risk portfolionational edition
Capability rungsthe national capability laddernational edition
Evidence ageoldest and newest source datesnational source register

Editions in the 2026 Baseline programme

26national

countries and unions

10regional

clusters

16global

flagship and sector

14strategic

systems reports

20frontier

technology reports

How to read a country card

  • Each system is shown against the distribution of its peers, with thresholds where they exist
  • Couplings and risk objects come from the country’s own national edition
  • Capability rungs record evidence, not a judgement of institutions
  • Evidence age is printed, so older national data are visible as such
Table B.6National Baseline Editions in the 2026 programme
WaveCountries and unionsState
W0CanadaISSUED
W1United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, European Union, SwitzerlandPLANNED
W2Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Türkiye, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Senegal, Kenya, African Union, India, China, Republic of Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, AustraliaPLANNED

B.6Licences

Table B.7Licences of each kind of material
MaterialLicence
TextCC BY 4.0
Dataon the licence of each source; Nexus tables CC BY 4.0
FiguresNexus figures CC BY 4.0; third-party as credited
Mapsboundary source and licence printed on each plate
MetadataCC0 1.0, as Zenodo publishes it
Third-party data, figures and textThe source’s own licence, credited where it is used; never relicensed
Nexus-authored text, tables and figures: CC BY 4.0 (SPDX CC-BY-4.0). Map plates print their boundary source and licence.

B.7Formats and provenance

Table B.8This edition in every format
FormatKindStateWhat it isIdentifier
Web editionHTMLOn this siteDraft in stewardship review; every value resolves to its source.NR-STRATEGIC-STRATTECH-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Print editionPDFAt releaseA4 portrait · screen, print and archival PDF, signed with the web edition at release.NR-STRATEGIC-STRATTECH-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Indicator dataCSV · JSONOn this site15 indicators with unit, year, status and source; the machine-readable copy ships with the evidence bundle at release.NR-STRATEGIC-STRATTECH-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE data release v1
FiguresSVG · PNGOn this site4 on the web edition: headline figure, figure 1.3, coupling instrument, capability ladder.FIG-STRATEGIC-STRATTECH-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-*
SlidesPDFNot recordedNo slide deck is recorded for this edition.
Evidence briefHTML · PDFNot recordedNo evidence brief is recorded for this edition.
Dataset with DOIDataCiteAt releaseConcept and version DOI are minted at deposit; none is recorded yet.

Provenance

Edition pack
The edition’s content pack (JSON), from which the print and web editions are built
Evidence cut
DC-STRATEGIC-STRATTECH-GLOBAL-2026-B0, closed 30 September 2026
Reproducibility
sourced values cited; analytical values reproducible from stated parameters
Self-check
14 of 23 at evidence close; a fail on any item blocks release
Review
five passes scheduled before release (in Annex C)
Publisher of record
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) for the Nexus Consortium
Corrections
Registry correction pathway; upheld corrections are published as notices with a new version

Notes

Numbers are the edition’s reference numbers, so a note reads the same in every chapter. The full list, with every source and its licence, is in Annex C. Annex C, references

  1. 1IEA (ed.), Energy and AI (World Energy Outlook Special Report). International Energy Agency, Paris, April 2025. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  2. 2IEA (ed.), Global Energy Review 2026 (revised version, May 2026). International Energy Agency, Paris. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  3. 12Central Statistics Office (ed.), Data Centres Metered Electricity Consumption 2024 (release of 10 June 2025; 22% of metered electricity in 2024, 21% in 2023, 5% in 2015). CSO, Cork. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  4. 3IEA (ed.), Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2026 (revised version, July 2026). International Energy Agency, Paris. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  5. 4WSTS (ed.), Global Semiconductor Market grows 26% in 2025 to USD 796 billion (release page; sales of USD 795.6 billion, up 26.2%). World Semiconductor Trade Statistics, Dec 2025 data, release dated March 2026 by file name. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  6. 5SIA (ed.), Global Annual Semiconductor Sales Increase 25.6% to $791.7 Billion in 2025 (release of 6 February 2026). Semiconductor Industry Association, Washington. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  7. 7European Court of Auditors (ed.), The EU’s strategy for microchips, special report 12/2025 (news item read; the 20% target and the Commission forecast of 9.8% in 2022 and 11.7% in 2030; the full report was not opened). European Court of Auditors, Luxembourg. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  8. 43US Congress (ed.), CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, Public Law 117-167, Division A, Title I, section 102 (statute text, US Government Publishing Office; CHIPS for America Fund appropriations for fiscal years 2022 to 2026 of USD 39 billion for manufacturing incentives under section 9902 and USD 11 billion for research; totals are sums of the annual amounts). Observation year 2022. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  9. 9Eurostat (ed.), Cloud computing: statistics on the use by enterprises (Statistics Explained; 52.74% of EU enterprises with 10 or more persons used paid cloud services in 2025). Eurostat, Luxembourg. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  10. 10Eurostat (ed.), Use of artificial intelligence in enterprises (Statistics Explained; 19.95% of EU enterprises with 10 or more persons in 2025; large enterprises 55.03%). Eurostat, Luxembourg. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  11. 11Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (ed.), The 2026 AI Index Report (report page; private AI investment in 2025 of USD 285.88 billion in the United States, USD 20.92 billion in Europe and USD 12.41 billion in China). Stanford University, Stanford. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  12. 13ITU (ed.), Facts and Figures (page titled 2025 whose text describes the 2026 edition; 6.3 billion people online, 76%; 2 billion offline; 93% in high-income and 32% in low-income countries). International Telecommunication Union, Geneva. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  13. 15EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (ed.), AI Factories (programme page; states 19 AI Factories and 13 antennas while the listing shows 18 entries; no amounts). EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, Luxembourg. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  14. 14POST-CLOSE, context only: Epoch AI (ed.), Frontier data centres (tracker page updated 1 November 2026; 96 sites, 15.1 GW of IT power; estimated coverage of about 45% of deployed AI compute). Epoch AI. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back

Cite this annex

Valadbaygi, S. (Ed.). (2026). Annex B: Data appendix. In Strategic Systems Report 2026: Strategic Technology Infrastructure and Sovereign Readiness (Baseline Edition 2026, Report No. NR-STRATEGIC-STRATTECH-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE) [Draft under review]. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

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