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The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that has published research and policy recommendations on data center energy efficiency and technology policy affecting the information technology sector.
July 6, 2026
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The April Deadline Beats the Rulebook by Three Years
ITIF's analysis reframes the water fight: direct cooling is the smaller issue, since power plants generating electricity for data centers consume roughly 12 times more water than on-site cooling, per Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
April 7, 2026
Medina County Told Microsoft No. Here's the Playbook It Used.ITIF's analysis counters that real electricity prices are 6 percent lower than 2010 levels and data centers rank near the bottom of cost drivers, but the political momentum for blunt-instrument bans is real.
April 6, 2026
When Military Strikes Take Down Cloud Regions, Location Becomes StrategyITIF's new report argues the real fix is pricing and market design, not consumption caps, recommending NIST and DOE develop energy-per-unit-of-work metrics.
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