{"id":1027865,"date":"2026-08-11T07:52:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027865"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:24:23","slug":"ais-hunger-for-power-sparks-us-private-gas-plant-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/ais-hunger-for-power-sparks-us-private-gas-plant-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"AI&#8217;s hunger for power sparks US private gas plant boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As US tech companies race to build the data centers fueling the AI boom, they are increasingly putting up their own power plants &#8212; off the grid and running on gas &#8212; to get online faster. <\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;behind-the-meter&#8221; generation into the early 2030s &#8212; around the total installed capacity of Mexico. <\/p>\n<p>The climate implications could be enormous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As US tech companies race to build the data centers fueling the AI boom, they are increasingly putting up their own power plants &#8212; off the grid and running on gas &#8212; 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 &#8220;behind-the-meter&#8221; generation into the early 2030s &#8212; around the total installed capacity of Mexico. The climate implications could be enormous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027887,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027865\/revisions\/1027887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}