Plus, one in three bit barns expected to exceed 1 GW by 2035

Everything's bigger in Texas, including the amount of available power. That's why the Lone Star State is set to become the leading bit barn market within a few years, and why hyperscalers and colocation providers now expect roughly a third of datacenter campuses to rely entirely on onsite power by 2030.

These findings come from the 2026 Datacenter Power Report [PDF] by Bloom Energy, a firm whose business is manufacturing solid oxide fuel cells, so it has more than a passing interest in onsite power generation.

It says that, in just over a year, power availability has moved from being one of many planning considerations to one of the major constraints on datacenter growth, and this factor is reshaping the industry, at least in the US.

The demand for energy from these massive server farms is growing rapidly, with the report claiming that total IT infrastructure load could ...