{"id":358416,"date":"2026-07-27T22:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/meta-is-backing-10-gas-plants-to-power-data-centers-and-just-quit-a-global-renewables-pledge\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T22:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:03:51","slug":"meta-is-backing-10-gas-plants-to-power-data-centers-and-just-quit-a-global-renewables-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/meta-is-backing-10-gas-plants-to-power-data-centers-and-just-quit-a-global-renewables-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta is backing 10 gas plants to power data centers \u2013 and just quit a global renewables pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/07\/meta-is-backing-10-gas-plants-to-power-data-centers-and-just-quit-a-global-renewables-pledge.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Facebook and Instagram\u2019s parent company, Meta, has quit RE100, the global corporate initiative whose members commit to using 100% renewable electricity. That\u2019s because Meta is bankrolling a fleet of new gas-fired power plants to fuel its expanding AI data centers. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/07\/27\/meta-is-backing-10-gas-plants-and-just-quit-a-global-renewables-pledge\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/meta-is-backing-10-gas-plants-to-power-data-centers-and-just-quit-a-global-renewables-pledge\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":358417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}