AI data centers are forcing dirty ‘peaker’ power plants back into service

In Chicago’s working-class Pilsen neighborhood, a 60s-era oil-fired power plant rises up from an industrial lot behind Dvorak ...
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Big Tech’s soaring energy demands are making coal-fired power plant sites attractive

FILE - The smokestacks of the former coal-fired Homer City Generating Station crumble in a planned demolition to make way for a new natural gas-fired power plant in Homer City, Pa., March 22, 2025.