{"id":234582,"date":"2026-01-15T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234582\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:20:07","slug":"the-role-of-gas-in-powering-ai-driven-energy-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234582\/","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":234583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-234582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}