Gas plants designed to power U.S. data centers could emit greenhouse gases equivalent to Australia or France annually.

Gas plants for US data centers to be major source of climate change-linked emissions, report says https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gas-plants-us-data-centers-be-major-source-climate-change-linked-emissions-2026-07-01/

Gas plants for US data centers to be major source of climate change-linked emissions, report says. Dozens of planned gas plants to ​directly power data centers in the United States could emit as much greenhouse gas annually as ‌Australia or France, according to a report by an environmental group published on Wednesday. The Environmental Integrity Project reviewed 74 gas-fired U.S. power plant projects proposed or planned to provide electricity directly to data centers, which would sidestep the process to connect to the ​U.S. electric grid. It estimated that they would generate 143 gigawatts of electricity and result in 662 ​million tons per year of greenhouse gas emissions. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gas-plants-us-data-centers-be-major-source-climate-change-linked-emissions-2026-07-01/ #ClimateCrisis #uspol