Little-known underground salt caverns could slow the AI boom and its thirst for power

A slow-starting race to build underground salt caverns could hamper the AI data center boom and weaken power delivery for the massive computing facilities that typically require 99.999% reliability. About half as much new gas storage is planned than will be needed in the future, industry sources estimate.

Yes, you read that correctly, salt caverns. Manmade reservoirs thousands of feet below the surface are ideal storage structures for the volume of natural gas required to power AI data...