Environmentalist Concern Grows Over AI’s Link To Gas-Fired Electricity

December 10, 2024
Environmentalists are ramping up concern about plans to rely on gas-fired electricity to meet rising demand from data centers, warning that the growth in artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a pretext to skirt carbon-reduction goals by deploying significant numbers of new gas power plants. The concerns add to calls to evaluate the local effects of data centers on air quality and land use, as environmentalists and others flag states such as Virginia, Texas and Louisiana as notable places to watch...


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