Carbon capture and storage could curb data center emissions

A Rice University study projects US data center power demand will grow fourfold to 169 gigawatts by 2030 due to AI demand, with associated CO2 emissions rising to 404 million metric tons annually. The research finds that natural gas plants paired with carbon capture and storage could mitigate 74% of data center emissions by 2030, with 34 US states possessing sufficient underground saline aquifer capacity to store the captured carbon for over a century.

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