A few weeks ago, Accumin — through its real estate data and intelligence division — published a study confirming something TALAT has argued from the site office for years: a building’s energy performance isn’t decided by its façade, it’s decided by its systems. Based on energy certificates registered with Spain’s Ministry for Ecological Transition, the study found that 94.2% of Spanish homes carry an inefficient rating (grades D to G), with 67.3% concentrated in grade E alone.
Tag: Engineering
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This week the International Energy Agency (IEA) put a number on the table worth pausing over: by 2030, the data centres powering artificial intelligence will consume as much electricity as an entire country — Japan. Sustaining that growth will require close to two trillion dollars in investment before the decade is out.
At the same time, another report released this same week — Deloitte’s Smart Manufacturing and Operations Survey 2025 — shows that industrial plants already using AI, automation and data analytics are seeing production gains of 10% to 20% and productivity gains of up to 20%. The same technology driving up global electricity demand is the one making factories more efficient. That’s the paradox — and the opportunity.