Data center developers and the world’s largest tech firms are increasingly looking to natural gas as the fastest way to access the massive quantities of electricity needed to build artificial intelligence megacampuses, and it’s turning the country`s fracking hotbeds into digital infrastructure hubs.From the Permian Basin in Texas to the Appalachian Basin in Pennsylvania, rural regions where the bulk of the country’s natural gas is produced are experiencing a sudden wave of planned data center projects intending to use that gas for power.
High-profile projects powered by behind-the-meter gas generation, like Oracle and OpenAI’s flagship Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas, and Meta’s Hyperion campus in northeast Louisiana, are poised to turn regions near shale fields that were once data center hinterlands into some of the industry`s fastest-growing development hot spots...
RSK: A twist in data center locations....go where the gas is. But remember, water plays an important role as well for the cooling process...
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