US Eyes Diesel Generators to Meet Growing AI Power Demand

The US is looking to tap the nation’s network of large industrial diesel generators used at data centers, big box stores and elsewhere to help curb rising electricity costs and support the surge in power demand from artificial intelligence, according to Energy Secretary Chris Wright.

Such a move could add the equivalent of roughly 35 traditional nuclear power plants worth of electricity and negate the need to build scores of power plants that could cost tens of billions of dollars, Wright said Tuesday at the North American Gas Forum in Washington.