If completed, the project would be among the largest and most expensive natural gas power plants.

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SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy plans to build a 9.2 gigawatt natural gas power plant on the Ohio-Kentucky border at a cost of $33 billion, which would make it the largest power plant in the U.S. The plant could power roughly 7.5 million homes. It remains unclear whether the facility would feed the general electrical grid or supply power to data centers, including those tied to the Stargate AI project with OpenAI. The project faces a long timeline—potentially a decade—due to turbine shortages, and raises significant climate concerns with an estimated 15 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually.

SoftBank to spend an eye-popping $33B to build huge U.S. gas power plant