Expected to serve as a temporary bridge before the facility establishes a permanent pipeline connection
Certarus, a Canadian natural gas firm, has signed an agreement with an unnamed “major hyperscale data center” operator in the US to supply 50MW of onsite power generation via mobile compressed natural gas (CNG) units.
The gas supply is expected to serve as a temporary bridge until the facility establishes a permanent pipeline connection, with deployment already underway. The location and identity of the data center company were not disclosed.
“Hyperscale data centers require the highest levels of safety and reliability and the continuous delivery of energy,” said Marshall Zurovec, vice president, Business Development at Certarus. “This win highlights our team’s industry-leading ability to collaborate with on-site power generation operators to engineer, project-manage, and rapidly deploy solutions from early planning stages through execution.”
Certarus will provide a mobile energy distribution platform to support the data center. The platform will include portable compression, logistics management, mobile storage units, on‑site gas delivery systems, and real-time equipment monitoring.
Calgary headquartered Certarus specializes in providing temporary natural gas supply solutions to a variety of offtakers. It does this through a virtual CNG pipeline, which provides temporary bridging solutions prior to the construction of a physical pipeline.
Certarus is the latest natural gas firm to dip its toes into the data center sector. Last month, Pacifico Energy announced plans to construct a 5GW off-grid power project in Pecos County, Texas. The project is expected to be totally off-grid, with the data center powered via high-efficiency natural gas turbines and advanced battery storage.
The majority of these deals have been in Texas, due to its unregulated energy market and ample supply of natural gas reserves. Another recent example is Texas Critical Data Centers, which recently closed the purchase of 235 acres of land in Ector County, Texas, to build a 250MW natural gas-powered AI data center, with the potential to scale beyond 1GW.
Source: DCD
