July 11, 2026
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"Prove It" Is Now the Price of Admission at the Texas Water District
Meanwhile Meta's Alberta gigawatt specified closed-loop liquid cooling to cut water draw, and Wärtsilä's analysis flags water scarcity eliminating aeroderivative gas turbine cooling across Mexico and parts of the U.S., narrowing technology choices where power density is already maxed.
July 3, 2026
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Shared Interconnection Buys Speed. Disciplined Developers Already Underwrite the Curtailment.
Wärtsilä's 790 MW off-grid Texas project and GE Vernova's gas-turbine approach chase the same certainty.
June 4, 2026
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Monterey Park Bans Datacenters by Ballot. Texas Cities Write Rules Instead.
Wärtsilä booked 300 MW for an Ohio facility.
April 27, 2026
Wisconsin Makes Hyperscalers Pay 100% of Their Own Generation BuildWärtsilä booked a 790 MW Texas order, 42 50SG engines for an off-grid facility delivering in 2028 and operating by late 2029, its fifth US data center order and first in Texas, bringing US data center capacity sold past 2.4 GW.
April 20, 2026
Hyperscalers Stop Waiting on the Grid as ERCOT Stares at 218 GWWärtsilä booked a 412 MW order for an Ohio data center (40 units of its 34SG engine, first U.S. data center deployment), pushing its U.S. data center engine book past 1.6 GW.
April 17, 2026
Behind-the-Meter Gas: 56 GW of Proof the Grid Isn't the PlanWärtsilä landed a 412 MW off-grid order in Ohio, PROENERGY signed a 650 MW aeroderivative deal with Crusoe Energy, and INNIO expanded its framework to 1.25 GW of gas engine capacity, all targeting data center operators who can't wait for the grid.