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Natural Gas: The Power Fueling Today's Data Centers
As the nation's AI infrastructure is built, project developers are increasingly relying on natural gas for their power needs. Sheppard's Digital Infrastructure Team is at the forefront of helping clients navigate this rapidly changing landscape. Why Data Centers Are Turning to Natural Gas Reliability Compared to Renewable Energy Sources Natural gas is one of the most reliable energy ...
All the latest updates on AI data centers - The Verge
43 percent of Americans blame data centers as a major reason for rising power bills.That’s according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Similar numbers of both Republicans and Democrats also cite data centers, which are quickly becoming a bipartisan issue, as a major reason for higher costs.A 40,000-acre data center project was just approved in Utah, despite outcry from the community.As reported by The Salt Lake Tribune, the planned hyperscale data center in Box Elder County, when fully completed, is expected to use 9 gigawatts of power — more than double the 4 gigawatts of power used by the state right now. The project is backed in part by Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary.A political battleground is forming around data centers.Are AI data centers coming to your area?This free, crowd-sourced tracker website is one of the most comprehensive attempts we’ve seen to keep tabs on where new data centers are being proposed. Maps are currently available across 18 states, with data compiled from public sources. You can read about the Data Center Proposal Tracker creator’s methodology here.Data centers will soon have to complete “mandatory” energy usage surveys.The plans, which were revealed in a letter seen by Wired, come in response to a bipartisan push to find out how much energy data centers are sucking up. The Energy Information Administration reportedly plans to launch the nationwide surveys after it wraps up pilot surveys in data center-heavy areas, such as Texas, Washington state, Washington DC, and northern Virginia.“A data center should not be a potential death sentence for a community’s health.”The NAACP is suing xAI to block Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center project outside of Memphis, TN, claiming that the project is operating 27 gas turbines without an air permit and in violation of the Clean Air Act.“By looking to evade clear air laws to operate dirty turbines that emit pollution and known carcinogens, these companies are following a shameful, familiar pattern: asking Black and frontline communities to bear the toxic brunt of ‘innovation,” said Abre’ Conner, NAACP Director of Environmental and Climate Justice.Iran threatens OpenAI’s Stargate data center in Abu DhabiIran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has published a video threatening OpenAI’s planned Abu Dhabi data center if the US follows through on threats to attack the country’s power plants, as reported earlier by Tom’s Hardware. The video, which was published to an Iranian state-b...
As Data Centers Push Grid to the Brink, Natural Gas is Stepping In
After NERC issued a Level 3 alert in response to the growing power needs of data centers, analysts weighed in on how natural gas might help alleviate the burden.
Texas Sees Surge in Gas Projects as Data Centers Drive Shift in Power ...
It's the first time since January 2016 that gas has overtaken wind in the queue, a shift that reflects the policy and economic headwinds facing the wind industry and data centers favoring gas ...
