Gas-Fired Power Back in Style, Driven by AI & Data Centers

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If you’ve read MDN for any time, you’ve come across at least a few articles about gas-fired power. Nationwide, natural gas produces 43.1% of all electricity, the number one source of electric generation (see this EIA page). Nuclear is number two, producing 18.6% of all electricity. Coal is number three, producing 16.2%. Wind produces 10.2% and solar 3.9%, pointing out the futility of claims that “renewables” are about to dislodge fossil energy in electric generation any year now. With the rise of data centers and artificial intelligence (AI) that uses enormous amounts of electricity, building new gas-fired power plants and buying existing gas-fired plants is suddenly all the rage.

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