In the West Texas oil patch, companies plan gas power plants to run new data centers
In the West Texas oil patch, companies plan gas power plants to run new data centers
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Huge Texas data centers will get their own gas power plants
The developer of one project, in Pecos County, calls it the largest power project in the U.S. Data centers are sparking a surge of gas power plant construction in Texas.
This is going to lock in a huge amount of fossil fuel burning and emission of both CO2 and leaked methane.