{"id":239346,"date":"2026-01-15T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/239346\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:00:06","slug":"the-role-of-gas-in-powering-ai-driven-energy-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/239346\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Gas in Powering AI-Driven Energy Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity demand growth is surging as data centres are becoming the new \u201cindustrial load\u201d of the artificial intelligence (AI) economy, and their electricity consumption is projected to double to\u00a0800-1000 TWh by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>While renewables are expected to provide about half of the data centres\u2019 electricity consumption by 2030, their\u00a0inherent variability\u00a0creates a mismatch with the flat, 24\/7 load profile of data centres which requires not only more generation but, also, significantly more\u00a0dispatchable capacity.<\/p>\n<p>This Report argues the case for long-term energy planning to remain fact-based, transparent, and grounded in realistic assumptions about electricity infrastructure and the rapid expansion of AI driven technology, while demonstrating the role of Gas in powering this ever-increasing AI-driven energy demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electricity demand growth is surging as data centres are becoming the new \u201cindustrial load\u201d of the artificial intelligence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-239346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}