U.S. Bets on Natural Gas to Power 10 GW AI Buildout in Ohio

Amid the Iranian war and oil price crisis, the Department of Energy, alongside the Department of Commerce, has unveiled a public-private partnership with SoftBank and AEP Ohio that centers on one thing the AI boom desperately needs but rarely talks about plainly—power. Not theoretical power. Not intermittent power. Real, dispatchable, grid-ready megawatts, mostly from natural gas. At the core of the plan, revealed in a Friday press release, is a 10-gigawatt data center campus at the Portsmouth Site in southern Ohio, backed by an equally massive…