Oil and gas producer Chevron said on Tuesday it plans to build natural gas-based power plants next to data centers in the U.S., as energy demand to support the growth of artificial intelligence is expected to boom.

Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into a fraying electric grid that serves everyone else.

US data centers will need 55 gigawatts of new power capacity within the next five years, according to a report released this week by Bloom Energy. The report, based on a survey of 100 data center leaders, also shows that 30% of all sites will be using onsite power by 2030.