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North America’s Natural Gas Turbine Market Fired Up as Multi-Year Backlog Seen Persisting

Natural Gas Intelligence · last updated

Massive hyperscale data centers, the beating heart of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, are consuming more power than utilities once thought possible. At the center of this energy story sits an old but essential technology: natural gas turbines.

Portrait of Bobby Noble, Senior Program Manager of Gas Turbine Research and Development at EPRI, wearing a blue plaid suit jacket, white shirt, and tan tie, with a neutral gray background.

At A Glance:

  • Orders climb for large turbine units
  • Smaller machines target data center loads
  • OEMs expand output to ease backlogs