Post by @ketan@climatejustice.social

*Operational* gas power plants dedicated to data centres are 1% of total operational gas w/ dedicated industrial purpose.

*PLANNED* gas power plants dedicated to data centres are 66% of total planned. Planned data centre gas plants are twice the total capacity of all other applications combined.

Whole bloody big heap of new planned ultra-filthy fossil infrastructure we need to stop from ever coming close to existing.

https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-oil-gas-plant-tracker

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Global operational gas plant capacity by industry: chemicals and oil & refining dominate with tens of thousands of MW, while data centres appear as a tiny purple bar near the baseline, indicating minimal capacity compared with major industrial sectors.

Bar chart titled "Planned gas plants" (global megawatt capacity, Gem Aug 2026) showing data centres dominating planned capacity as a tall magenta bar (~180,000 MW) while many other industries appear as much smaller orange bars along the bottom

Global Energy Monitor

Global Oil and Gas Plant Tracker

The Global Oil and Gas Plant Tracker is a worldwide dataset of oil- and gas-fired power plants.

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