Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center
Gas turbines at xAI’s Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company’s use of “mobile” gas turbines as power plants.
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Data center demand drives 66% surge in natural gas power plant costs
Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as data center electricity demand skyrockets.
AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?
Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret it.
AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?
Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret it.
Meta’s natural gas binge could power South Dakota
Meta’s upcoming Hyperion AI data center will be powered by 10 new natural gas plants.
Arbor Energy just landed a billion-dollar order to bring rocket turbine tech to the power grid
The large deal sees Arbor delivering as many as 200 of its Halcyon turbines, which can burn either natural gas or waste biomass.
SoftBank to spend an eye-popping $33B to build huge U.S. gas power plant
If completed, the project would be among the largest and most expensive natural gas power plants.
EPA rules that xAI’s natural gas generators were illegally used
Elon Musk’s AI company had installed and operated 35 natural gas turbines without permits, something the EPA now says was illegal.
Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers
Crusoe will pay Boom $1.25 billion for more than a gigawatt of generating capacity with deliveries of the turbines starting in 2027.
Data centers now attract more investment than than finding new oil supplies
In a shift, the world will spend $40 billion more on new data centers this year than it will on finding new sources of oil.