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PHOENIX - Arizona Public Service (APS) announced plans to build a new natural gas facility , a move the utility says will provide a major boost to Arizona's energy grid.

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Americans are consuming energy at an unprecedented rate, a trend that includes Arizona, according to APS Executive Vice President and COO Jacob Tetlow.

"This is unprecedented from a load growth standpoint," Tetlow said. "We have never in the history of our company seen customers asking for energy that would require us to more than triple the size of this utility."

Tetlow attributes much of the skyrocketing demand to artificial intelligence , noting that a small data center can use 40 to 60 times the energy of a single Walmart store.

"They use a lot of energy, these data centers that

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