{"id":180,"date":"2026-03-10T22:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=180"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:25:06","slug":"how-the-spiraling-iran-conflict-could-affect-data-centers-and-electricity-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"How the spiraling Iran conflict could affect data centers and electricity costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A ship seen in front of a skyline.\" data-caption=\"A commercial ship is viewed anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Strait of Hormuz, Dubai, on March 2nd, 2026. Increased maritime traffic led to a buildup of vessels waiting near Dubai, highlighting the strategic importance of the strait, which handles 20 percent of global energy trade. | Photo: Getty Images\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo: Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2263868831.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tA commercial ship is viewed anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Strait of Hormuz, Dubai, on March 2nd, 2026. Increased maritime traffic led to a buildup of vessels waiting near Dubai, highlighting the strategic importance of the strait, which handles 20 percent of global energy trade. | Photo: Getty Images\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Soon after the Trump administration launched its war on Iran, I called up Reed Blakemore, director of research and programs at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/science\/888526\/what-trumps-war-on-iran-means-for-the-us-energy-crunch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talk about the consequences<\/a>. While oil and gas prices were already on the rise, there was still more hope then that the impact of the conflict might be short-lived. At the end of our conversation, Blakemore said plainly: &#8220;Let&#8217;s have a call again [next week] \u2026 We&#8217;ll have a much clearer picture of what the conflict is going to look like and what the story really is going to be for energy moving forward.&#8221; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote>\n<p> Energy infrastructure has become a key leverage point in the unfold \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/892661\/iran-war-oil-gas-prices-data-center-electricity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commercial ship is viewed anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Strait of Hormuz, Dubai,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}