Ironically, Exxon is exploding the myth that natural gas is the enemy of the world. However, it also exposes the plan to create a separate power grid that serves only AI data centers; that is, it will not connect to the consumer grid to power homes, businesses, and factories, nor will it lower your power bill.
Exxon owns more the 40,000 producing natural gas wells in America and easily increase production with no other capital investments. Creating off-grid power plants excuses Exxon from the Green Agenda’s lust to cut power to consumers, while participating in the AI craze to take over the world.
I might have commented before that a Data Campus is being planned in S E Northumberland. A rock-solid electricity supply will be needed.
The power station at Lynemouth, same area, was specifically built to supply an aluminium smelter (Alcan). It now burns woodchip pellets and the like.
In other words, there is a “proven success” in Public-Private Partnerships in this area. The bits that are Private will be the profitable bits. An LNG tanker parked nearby (Blyth) could ensure that if the thing gets nuked only quite unimportant people are vaporised.