Battery costs drop below natural gas turbines for data center power

Declining battery prices have made energy storage systems cheaper than conventional gas turbine generators at many data centers, a shift with implications for grid-scale and backup power economics as AI-driven compute demand surges.

First covered Oct 9, 2026 · 11:57 AM PT · 1 article · no longer in the live window

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32d TechCrunch Climate Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers — Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines as the data center boom pushes prices up.

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