US building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China in AI boom, analysis finds

US building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China in AI boom, analysis finds

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There has been a 76% increase in under-construction gas-fired projects amid ‘frenzy’ to build more datacenters The US has surged ahead of China in the building of new gas-fired power generation, largely to feed a boom in artificial intelligence (AI) that is adding vast amounts of planet-heating emis

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