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Booming demand for gas turbines from US data centre operators has sparked a global price surge that has pushed the cost of gas-fired power generation above small home batteries for the first time, a trend the federal science agency believes will continue.

The change means it is now cheaper for four-hour home batteries to fill the electricity demand between 5pm and 9pm than it is to have gas peaking, according to the latest CSIRO GenCost report released on Wednesday.

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