re: Huge gas plant eyed to power mystery $5 billion Louisiana data center

They are building a new power plant in Greenville for new Amazon data centers in Mississippi. Needless to say, Greenville is thrilled about it because it's plant was old and about to be decommissioned

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AI is causing utilities to bend the knee to traditional power generation, at least they are building the plant rather than trying to rely on solar farms while shutting down other traditional power plants, it really is causing a crunch on their "green" energy initiatives

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Big Tech has been pushing for green energy for years and made this monster. It’s funny how it’s coming full circle and now that they need real horsepower they are turning back to baseload, dispatchable, human-controlled energy sources.

At this rate I wouldn’t be surprised if tech companies start to build supercritical coal plants. They are cheap and easy to build. First it was “wind and solar can do it”. Now it’s “let’s restart every mothballed nuclear plant”. And now that they see the red tape involved in new nuclear they’re going to turn to natural gas. And with that they’ll eventually get to coal since it’s the cheapest.

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1500MW will be one of the biggest power plants in this state and it's SPECIFICALLY for the datacenter

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I believe this is correct. I think the largest plant in the state is Nine Mile Point with a nameplate rating of 2400MW. And that one is actually tied into the grid and not only being built for on-site generation for a data center.

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"Costs not paid by the data center, either through electricity rates or separate agreements, would be spread across Entergy’s 1.1 million Louisiana customers"

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Yeah...this is horseshite. If the center is going to be using the vast majority of the energy why the hell are we paying for any of it?

Drove through Columbia today, there’s miles of solar panels out in the farmland now. Such a fricking eye sore.

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Ironically announced just after Trump was re-elected. It's another example of how he understands the needs of the nation today, with an acknowledgement that alternatives for fuel are in the future

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This has been in the works for quite a while

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Why? It’s our most abundant source of energy, is the cleanest carbon based fuel by a long shot, and is easily ramped up and down as demand changes.

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I’m probably too ignorant on this take, but would rather as much natural gas a possible be sucked up for reliable, cost efficient energy to homes and businesses. We already don’t have the most stable power grid nation-wide for demand, and now these data centers are sucking up HUGE amounts.

I don't think the people that wrote this article saw the same election results we did.

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Natural gas is a pretty damn clean and easy to extract energy source for us to use in the U.S.

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this!

Any relation to southern poverty law center?

If so, they can get fricked.

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NG producers are heavily marketing themselves as the answer for AI power.

NG loves AI and EVs.

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Are they really, when the excrement hits the fan and natty gas supplies become tight again and prices go high again we will all be paying for those high prices.