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The episode discusses the implications of America's natural gas buildout and the role of major tech companies in this energy shift.

The United States is staring down a natural gas buildout of gigantic proportions. Amazon wants to build what would be the country’s largest power plant in Texas — and run it entirely on natural gas. Not to be outdone, OpenAI is plotting an even larger power plant in Ohio that, if built, would become the world’s largest gas power facility. How should we think about this boom — and about the AI and technology companies behind it, who remain some of the world’s biggest buyers of clean energy? On this episode of Shift Key, Rob is joined by Emily Pontecorvo, a Heatmap founding staff writer. They discuss what Emily learned identifying the country’s 10 biggest gas projects, what surprised her most, and what this means for the country’s climate trajectory — and Big Tech’s corporate net-zero goals. Shift Key is hosted by Robinson Meyer, the founding executive editor of Heatmap News. You can find a full transcript of the episode here . Mentioned: The U.S. Is Building Natural Gas Power Twice as Fast as China Emily on Amazon’s Gigawatt Ranch Rob on OpenAI and the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus -- This episode of Shift Key is sponsored by ... Verse's software platform Aria helps data centers…

People in this episode

Host: Robinson Meyer

Guest: Emily Pontecorvo

Topics covered

• natural gas
• energy
• climate change
• technology
• Big Tech
• power plants

Keywords

• natural gas buildout
• Amazon power plant
• OpenAI
• climate trajectory
• clean energy

Sponsors

Verse

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon, OpenAI, Heatmap News

Places: Texas, Ohio

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