EdinburghWood Mackenzie finds batteries cheaper in all 43 markets.

Open-cycle turbines are the peaking plants many data centre developers have been buying.

Data centre developers have driven up turbine prices, and open-cycle units now take 2 to 4 years to procure.

In the Middle East and Africa, four-hour batteries will be 33% cheaper by 2035, Wood Mackenzie projects.

How each outlet framed it
TechCrunch
maps the cost gap across all 43 surveyed markets, tying it to data-center demand for gas turbines

Sources: TechCrunch