Ketan Joshi

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7am · Mega data centres in bed with big gas: how fossil fuels are powering the AI boom · 7 Jun 2026 podcast

off-grid gas power plants to run data centers have emerged as a major new threat.

I was personally quite surprised at this.

I think if you'd asked me two years ago, I would have

Simply said, this is just unlikely because it's so absurd.

But in America, many data centers are actually instead of waiting for a connection to the power grid or building renewable energy, which would be cheaper, they are actually just building a gas fired power station instead.

And at a scale that is unbelievable.

What we're talking about in this site is potentially energy consumption of as much as one gigawatt.

To put that into context, that is about the size of a large nuclear power station for this site.

These projects, the ones that are under construction, are massive.

They're multi-gigawatt gas-fired power stations, more than Australia's entire installed capacity of gas-fired power.

And in Australia, we're starting to see the same thing.

There is a project in New South Wales called Cloud Carrier that has a 700 megawatt gas-fired power station project attached to it.

Just the emissions from that project alone would wipe out all of the projected emissions reductions in New South Wales in 2028, to give you a sense of the scale of the climate impact of this facility.

These are massive new fossil-fueled power stations.

These have gone from being on-site backup generation to being what has been described as a shadow grid, basically an entirely new fleet of gas-fired power just for data centers.

We're seeing this in the United Kingdom.

We're seeing this in Canada.

Gas turbine manufacturers are going to data center conferences in Europe and saying, this is coming here.

We want to supply you with gas.

This is very clearly happening.

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