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AI's Urgent Need for Power Spurs Return of Dirtier Gas Turbines
If Stargate's first AI data center is completed next year as planned, the 900-acre site will need enough round-the-clock electricity to support 300,000 homes. But securing that power isn't as simple as plugging into the grid.
Unlike arch rival Meta Platforms Inc., which Tuesday announced a 20-year deal to buy electricity from an Illinois nuclear plant, Stargate is relying on a technology that's largely been relegated to the sidelines of power production: small, single cycle natural gas turbines.
