Meeting the AI energy challenge
Artificial intelligence is pushing electricity demand beyond the limits of existing grids, increasing the role of gas and LNG in energy system planning as a fast, flexible solution
AI-driven power demand is accelerating faster than grids can respond, pushing gas—and LNG—back to the centre of energy system planning, panellists said at ‘Powering AI: Meeting the Energy Demands of the AI Data Centre Boom’ session at LNG2026 in Doha, Qatar The panellists, from the fields of power technology, infrastructure and environmental advocacy, agreed the surge in electricity demand from datacentres and AI workloads is not creating a new trend so much as violently accelerating an existing one. Electrification of transport, homes and industry was already under way globally, but the arrival of large-scale AI computing has placed unprecedented strain on grids that were never designed for
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