Oracle moves gas by trucks to keep its AI data centres on schedule
Deliveries by road kept a site outside Salt Lake City running for more than a year while a pipeline was built, are powering early work at an OpenAI campus in Texas, and are now under consideration at Project Jupiter in New Mexico, where the state land office twice refused rights-of-way for the pipeline and Oracle has already given itself cover for a delay
Via TNW | Artificial-intelligence
Oracle is trucking compressed natural gas to AI data centres that cannot yet connect to a pipeline, at roughly four times the price of gas at a hub. Europe has the same grid bottleneck and is answering it the other way, with Spain proposing to refuse connections to any data centre not on 80% renewables every hour.
Oracle is trucking compressed natural gas to data centres it cannot plug in. Road deliveries kept a site outside Salt Lake City moving…
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