The Guardian, on Climate, 11 November 2026
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Read the original article on theguardian.com (opens in a new tab)The Guardian reports BloombergNEF research showing that AI datacentre developers in the US, the UK and Europe plan about 181GW of on-site gas power because grid connections are slow. It attributes the emissions estimate to the research and puts the developers' claim that the plants are temporary against the analyst's warning of lock-in. Nothing in the article misleads its reader.
“The research by BloombergNEF says this “speed to power” will – if the planned rollout happens – emit about 345m metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year in the US”
The article names the source of the emissions figure and keeps its condition, "if the planned rollout happens", so the reader knows it is a projection and not a measured total.
“the developers of the future datacentres claimed their gas-fired power supplies would be temporary while they waited for grid connections”
The article treats the developers' account as their claim, not as fact, and sets the analyst's warning of a longer fossil fuel lock-in straight after it.
“Future Energy Networks, the representative body for the UK gas networks”
The article says plainly whom the source represents, so the reader can weigh a gas industry body's figures for what they are.
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