Akron’s B&W Buys 1 GW of Turbines for Gas-Fired Data Centers

Babcock & Wilcox — the 159-year-old boiler maker headquartered in Akron, Ohio — announced yesterday that it signed an agreement with Siemens Energy to start work on 20 steam turbine generator sets totaling 1 gigawatt (GW) of capacity for gas-fired data center projects. Here's the part that caught our eye: B&W hasn't announced signed customers for all of them. The company is buying the factory slots first and lining up buyers second. That's a real bet on gas-fired power demand — and it's being made by a company sitting right on top of the Utica.

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