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Gas plants for US data centers to be major source of climate change-linked emissions, report says. Dozens of planned gas plants to ​directly power data centers in the United States could emit as much greenhouse gas annually as ‌Australia or France, according to a report by an environmental group published on Wednesday. The Environmental Integrity Project reviewed 74 gas-fired U.S. power plant projects proposed or planned to provide electricity directly to data centers, which would sidestep the process to connect to the ​U.S. electric grid. It estimated that they would generate 143 gigawatts of electricity and result in 662 ​million tons per year of greenhouse gas emissions. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gas-plants-us-data-centers-be-major-source-climate-change-linked-emissions-2026-07-01/ #ClimateCrisis #uspol