aceUS building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China in AI boom, analysis finds
The US has surged ahead of China in the building of new gas-fired power generation, largely to feed a boom in artificial intelligence (AI) that is adding vast amounts of planet-heating emissions, a new analysis has found. For decades, China’s rapid economic growth has seen it outpace the US in the addition of new gas power generation but a recent “frenzy” in datacenter construction for AI has reversed this, said Global Energy Monitor (Gem) in its new report. The US is now building twice as much gas-fired capacit…
AI datacenter boom is driving a surge in US gas-fired power development that risks locking in decades of pollution and raising power-sector emissions.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-08-25
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