Mar 31, 2026 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Power tech firms Sapphire Technologies and Anax Power are partnering to turn excess gas pipeline pressure into power and cooling for data centers. Sapphire will provide its FreeSpin in-line turboexpander, which captures waste energy from pipeline pressure reduction, while Anax will integrate the technology into colocated data center facilities to deliver emission-free power and cooling.
Anax, which has no prior data center development experience, plans to oversee construction and operations, with commissioning expected later this year. It’s unclear whether a site has been secured, but the facility is expected to be occupied by Bitcoin miner Magellan Scientific. The New Jersey-based company aims to deploy modular data centers along gas pipelines, a model it says could provide multiple layers of energy redundancy.
It said: “By recovering otherwise wasted pressure energy, the system generates electricity without combustion or emissions. Simultaneously, high-capacity cooling is produced and used to efficiently manage server heat load.”
“Data centers face continued challenges with power availability and thermal management,” said Freddie Sarhan, CEO of Sapphire Technologies. “This project demonstrates how pressure energy recovery delivers both electricity and cooling capacity in a single system, supporting data center growth through smarter infrastructure design. Turboexpanders are the right energy building block for distributed data centers, and Anax provides a repeatable template that can be deployed at scale.”
“Pressure energy is one of the most overlooked sources of emission-free power,” said Michael Longo, CEO of Anax Power. “Our partnership with Sapphire represents a first-of-its-kind integration of turboexpander generation with data center infrastructure. By combining emission-free power and cooling, Anax is poised to quickly build a fleet of modular, distributed data centers with industry-leading PUE performance.
