A video call, a payment and a query to an AI model each cross radio masts, fibre and power systems before they reach a screen. As mobile data grows, 5G densifies and AI moves into everyday use, the constraint shifts from software to sites: the land, structures, power and connections that networks and compute require.
Demand is compounding. The supply of well-located, powered and shared sites is not keeping pace.
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Mobile data carried worldwide since you opened this page
Derived from 203 EB per month at end-2025, Ericsson Mobility Report, June 2026
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Electricity used by the world's data centres since you opened this page
Derived from 415 TWh in 2024, IEA, Energy and AI, 2025
515 EBMobile data per month forecast for 2031 (Ericsson, June 2026).
47 GBMonthly data per smartphone in the Middle East and North Africa by 2031, up from 21 GB (Ericsson, June 2026).
~945 TWhData-centre electricity demand by 2030 (IEA, 2025).
2.2bnPeople still offline, 96% of them in low- and middle-income countries (ITU, November 2025).