Tech Giants Abandon Public Grid For Private Gas Hubs #
Hyperscale artificial intelligence demands an infrastructural absolute: unyielding baseload power. The public utility grid, choked by state-level regulatory friction and structural decay, can no longer provide this baseline. In response, corporate capital is executing a highly rational logistical secession. Meta has commissioned ten dedicated natural gas-fired power plants to electrify its Hyperion AI campus in Louisiana, abandoning public grid reliance to secure uninterrupted compute yields. Simultaneously, Microsoft is co-developing a 900-megawatt private gas plant in Abilene, Texas, absorbing a site…