AI’s hunger for power sparks US private gas plant boom

As US tech companies race to build the data centers fueling the AI boom, they are increasingly putting up their own power plants — off the grid and running on gas — to get online faster.

Analysis by the research firm Cleanview, shared with AFP, identified around 60 data centers planned for the coming years with a combined 97 gigawatts of “behind-the-meter” generation into the early 2030s — around the total installed capacity of Mexico.

The climate implications could be enormous.