General Tech

Anthropic is burning gas to feed the AI boom

Anthropic's S-1 filing reveals the company's reliance on natural gas for its AI data centers, citing intense competition for access to electrical supply and data center locations. The company's planned data centers in Texas and New York will rely on electricity generated by natural gas turbines on-site. The US is planning to build more fossil fuel generation capacity to meet growing data center electricity demands, despite concerns about rising fuel costs and supply chain constraints.

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