Data center buildouts have regularly been in the news for their massive power needs, the strain they put on the grid, and the energy prices that can increase for residents in the general vicinity. The buildouts usually require years of planning and approvals for grid connections. Those timeframes are a preposterous notion for companies invested in the AI gold rush, who have started sidestepping the issue entirely by building their own power generation, fueled mostly by natural gas turbines.
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