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Oracle Trucks Natural Gas to AI Data Centers at Four Times Pipeline Cost to Avoid Power Delays
Read this in the Market Flux appOracle is transporting natural gas by truck to fuel its AI data centers, bypassing pipeline delays that threaten the company's rapid infrastructure expansion. The workaround has already been deployed at sites in Utah and Texas, and the company is weighing extending it to Project Jupiter, its massive 2.45-gigawatt data center campus under development in New Mexico.
The strategy carries a steep premium: trucked gas costs roughly four times more than gas delivered by pipeline, underscoring how severely power constraints are pressuring hyperscale AI infrastructure buildouts. Oracle's willingness to absorb that cost differential reflects the urgency companies face in keeping data center timelines intact as demand for AI compute continues to outpace energy grid readiness.
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