We Should Be Friends - Tech Giants Increasingly Turning to Natural Gas to Power Data Centers

10/03/2025 13 min
We Should Be Friends - Tech Giants Increasingly Turning to Natural Gas to Power Data Centers

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The pace of announcements for planned data centers accelerated in 2024 and has continued to gather steam in 2025, with natural gas-fired power plants emerging as a frequent choice, along with nuclear power, to provide the around-the-clock electricity that large-scale data centers want and need. In today’s RBN blog, the first in a series, we’ll detail plans by several well-known energy firms to construct new gas-fired plants that would produce electricity specifically for data centers. 

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