The electricity crisis forces AI companies to return to old gas turbines.

The first artificial intelligence data center of the Stargate project, which will be completed next year, will occupy 900 acres and require round-the-clock power supply for 300 thousand homes. Providing such a large amount of energy has proven to be difficult, and the solution to this issue has been small gas turbines.Unlike Meta Platforms Inc., Stargate chose gas turbines for its data center in Texas. This innovative solution arose due to the high demand for electricity in the field of artificial intelligence.The partnership between OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank in energy generation for data centers of artificial intelligence has been the reason for the growing popularity of gas turbines. This has led to an increase in orders for gas power plants and overcapacity in production for several years. However, the growing demand is also causing an increase in carbon emissions, as data centers use gas and coal for energy production. Updates in energy solutions for tech giants show that efforts to enhance the efficiency of data centers continue into the future.