The United States is constructing significantly more gas-fired power generation capacity than China on 2026-08-25, with a 76% increase in under-construction gas projects driven by tech companies' AI datacenter expansion. Major firms including Google, OpenAI, and Amazon are contributing to the power infrastructure surge, creating bottlenecks in turbine availability.
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There has been a 76% increase in under-construction gas-fired projects amid ‘frenzy’ to build more datacenters 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
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