
Pipelines that transport America’s energy sources are increasingly linked to the buildout of AI infrastructure rather than black gold. Artificial intelligence’s insatiable energy demand is well documented, for better or worse, and the number of power-hungry data centers looks likely to rise, despite grassroots opposition. The upshot is that the outlook for midstream companies, the “toll roads” that connect sources of oil and natural gas to their destinations at refineries, petrochemical plants and transportation hubs, has changed.













