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Why Are AI Companies So Obsessed With Gas?

Amazon is building a 7.65 gigawatt gas plant in the West Texas desert. Microsoft just signed a 20-year gas deal with Chevron, 30 miles away, and Meta, OpenAI, and xAI are all doing versions of the same thing. The case for going off-grid is speed and control: an AI data center takes 18 months to buil

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Clean energy transition — covers the people, capital, and billion-dollar deals shaping the future of energy, hosted by Jigar Shah.

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