Microsoft and Chevron on Monday announced plans to develop a 2.67-gigawatt natural gas power plant in West Texas to serve the tech company’s AI and cloud data centers. Under a 20-year power purchase agreement, the plant will provide dedicated power to a data center operated by Microsoft. Two large GE Vernova turbines will generate most…
Elon Musk’s The power plants are considered “mobile” by the state of Mississippi because they sit on flatbed trailers, thus allowing them to avoid air pollution regulations for a year. The NAACP, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of area residents, says uncontrolled emissions from the turbines are worsening air quality in an already polluted…
SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy is expected to build a 9.2 gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant on the Ohio-Kentucky border. report From Bloomberg. If completed, it would be the largest power plant in the US, capable of powering approximately 7.5 million homes. With a price tag of $33 billion, the project will be more expensive than…
The Environmental Protection Agency ruled Thursday that Elon Musk’s XAI is illegally operating dozens of natural gas turbines to power its Colossus data centers in Tennessee. The AI company has argued that since the turbines were being used on a temporary basis, they were exempt from the rules. The EPA disagreed and issued this final…
