How AI and natural gas can power a sustainable data center revolution

3/31/2026

In an increasingly digitalized global economy, the world’s power systems and electricity consumption patterns are undergoing profound shifts that are difficult to ignore. Consumers and industries are becoming more reliant on digital tools like artificial intelligence (AI). Operating the growing number of power-hungry data centers that underpin this digital shift in a sustainable manner has become a defining challenge of our age. Data center capabilities grow in line with our computational needs, as does their power consumption. We have come a long way from the earlier versions of data centers pioneered in the 1980s. As internet usage, e-commerce and handheld digital devices became ubiq