In the broader political and tech world, gas has come to the forefront not via LNG but rather the race for AI supremacy and the surge in plans to develop data centers fueled by dedicated gas-fired power generation plants (as well as with renewables). The amount of data center capacity that is actually built and the corresponding gas demand it ultimately represents will warrant close scrutiny in the years ahead. Rystad Energy will continue to closely monitor data center projects globally in 2026 in order to ...