B&W to Supply Applied Digital with Over 1GW of Natural Gas Power

US energy technology provider Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) has signed an agreement with data center developer Applied Digital to supply it with more than 1GW of natural gas power. The company also expects to sign a long-term parts and services agreement once the plant becomes operational. The exact data center that the power plants will serve was not disclosed.

“We’re proud to partner with B&W, a company with nearly 160 years of proven leadership in power generation,” said Wes Cummins, chairman and CEO of Applied Digital.

“Their advanced boiler and steam turbine technology delivers efficiency on par with the simple-cycle gas turbines we evaluated – while enabling faster deployment. This partnership enhances our ability to add more capacity to current and future sites, giving Applied Digital a distinct speed-to-market advantage in bringing power generation online.”

“B&W has designed and installed thousands of boilers and has more than 400GW of installed generating capacity at utility and industrial plants around the world,” said Kenneth Young, B&W chairman and CEO. “Our solutions for AI Data Centers are proven technologies that utilize natural gas efficiently while providing reliable, redundant, and readily available power faster than combined-cycle or simple-cycle plants.”