BloombergNEF Forecast Sees U.S. Data Centers Driving 15 Bcf/d Gas-Demand Surge by 2035

U.S. data centers are now forecast to add 15 billion cubic feet per day of natural-gas demand for electricity by 2035, a sharp upward revision that links the AI buildout directly to the U.S. gas market. The new estimate, attributed to BloombergNEF, is more than double the firm's December projection and would make data-center power generation a gas user larger than most national economies.