BTM demand is driving gas turbine orders. Post 076 documents the second M501JAC at PowerSouth and the Tallgrass Cheyenne allocation. Both are advanced-class turbines placed specifically to serve data center load, confirming BTM as the primary new demand signal reaching turbine order books.
Dedicated gas generation continued to scale as the standard way around a slow and contested grid. A new advanced-class turbine order landed for a utility expansion driven by data center demand. Roughly two gigawatts of behind-the-meter gas is already operating, most of it serving a single AI customer. The headline projects from earlier cycles await regulatory decisions later in the year.
Williams Companies announced Project NEO at its Q1 2026 earnings on May 5 - a 682 MW behind-the-meter gas plus battery storage facility targeted for service in H2 2028. NEO is Williams' fifth and largest commercialized Power Innovation project, part of a $9.6B portfolio under execution plus $6B in backlog.
Chevron's Energy Forge One subsidiary applied in mid-May for a $227 million property-tax break under Texas's JETI program for the Pecos behind-the-meter gas plant supplying a Microsoft AI data center. The facility's environmental impact assessment discloses up to 11 million tons of CO2 per year - one of the largest single-site industrial emitters in the region.
Meta's Hyperion data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana is expanding from 3 to 10 natural gas plants, totaling more than 7 GW. Entergy will build the 7 additional plants (5.2 GW); Meta pays its full cost of service. Total Hyperion project cost projected above $200 billion.
The AI power buildout has moved from forecast to order book. The richest companies in the world are prepared to spend almost without limit. They have discovered that money cannot manufacture time.
BTM demand is driving gas turbine orders. Post 076 documents the second M501JAC at PowerSouth and the Tallgrass Cheyenne allocation. Both are advanced-class turbines placed specifically to serve data center load, confirming BTM as the primary new demand signal reaching turbine order books.
Dedicated gas generation continued to scale as the standard way around a slow and contested grid. A new advanced-class turbine order landed for a utility expansion driven by data center demand. Roughly two gigawatts of behind-the-meter gas is already operating, most of it serving a single AI customer. The headline projects from earlier cycles await regulatory decisions later in the year.
Williams Companies announced Project NEO at its Q1 2026 earnings on May 5 - a 682 MW behind-the-meter gas plus battery storage facility targeted for service in H2 2028. NEO is Williams' fifth and largest commercialized Power Innovation project, part of a $9.6B portfolio under execution plus $6B in backlog.
Chevron's Energy Forge One subsidiary applied in mid-May for a $227 million property-tax break under Texas's JETI program for the Pecos behind-the-meter gas plant supplying a Microsoft AI data center. The facility's environmental impact assessment discloses up to 11 million tons of CO2 per year - one of the largest single-site industrial emitters in the region.
Meta's Hyperion data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana is expanding from 3 to 10 natural gas plants, totaling more than 7 GW. Entergy will build the 7 additional plants (5.2 GW); Meta pays its full cost of service. Total Hyperion project cost projected above $200 billion.
The AI power buildout has moved from forecast to order book. The richest companies in the world are prepared to spend almost without limit. They have discovered that money cannot manufacture time.