NRG Energy agreed on principal commercial terms with a global cloud and AI hyperscaler to build a 1.2 GW combined-cycle natural gas power plant in Texas to supply a new data centre
NRG Energy announced it advanced its "Bring Your Own Power" strategy with a global cloud and AI hyperscaler. The parties agreed on principal commercial terms for a 1.2 GW combined-cycle natural gas generation facility in Texas. This project aims to meet large load growth through customer-backed generation investment, supporting grid reliability and energy affordability.
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Some AI data centres are getting dedicated gas plants, showing that new power supply is being built around them.
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- American Electric Power, one of the largest US utilities, which counts hyperscalers and manufacturers among its new large customers, signed fresh load commitments in the third quarter of 2026 and now expects its contracted extra load to reach 84 GW by 2031 AEP signed 15 GW of new load commitments in a single quarter
- AI data centres worldwide reached a power capacity comparable to New York State at peak demand in 2025, which Stanford's AI Index puts at 29.6 gigawatts
- OpenAI does not disclose GPT-4o's resource footprint, so Stanford's 2026 AI Index Report turned to independent researchers' estimates of the water needed to cool the servers behind it — as much as 1.58 million kilolitres a year — more than 1.2 million people drink annually
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