Resolves YES if, by 2027-03-31, the EIA (Energy Information Administration) or Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) publishes data indicating that US datacenter electricity consumption in calendar year 2026 exceeded 6% of total US electricity consumption.

Source of truth (must be one of):

• EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2027 or EIA Monthly Energy Review covering calendar-2026 datacenter electricity figures

• LBL US Data Center Energy Usage Report (next publication after the 2024 report)

• Equivalent EIA or LBL public dataset showing 2026 datacenter electricity / total US electricity ratio

If neither EIA nor LBL has published 2026 data by 2027-03-31, market resolves based on the most recent EIA / LBL projection that explicitly projects calendar-2026, with consumption exceeding 6% of total = YES.

The 6% threshold is on a 12-month-aggregate basis (full-year 2026 datacenter TWh / full-year 2026 total US TWh).

Resolution date: 2027-03-31.

About this market. This market is part of SCB/SCO Reference Run #001 — AI Compute (30-day longitudinal demonstration) under Leadership Under Uncertainty. It is a research-demonstration corpus, not a commercial product.

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