AI Power Demand Spurs Make-Your-Own-Electricity Effort for Data Centers
Data centers are getting their own gas turbines to speed their development
The power demands of artificial intelligence have already led the tech giants to scale back their climate goals. Now the intense battle to dominate AI has created a frenzy of dealmaking to secure enough electricity to power a major city.
That’s created a clash between the fast-moving, lightly regulated tech industry and the nation’s heavily regulated power grid and electric utilities. To get around the bottleneck, data centers are becoming their own utilities and generating power for themselves.