NEWS
Data centers are getting priority gas turbine slots, but four hurdles still stand between a slot and running their own power.
At Singapore International Energy Week, Giresh Prabhat says turbine suppliers are giving data centers priority slots, engineering teams and commercial flexibility. That is his practitioner read as head of Atrion Energy and a former GE Vernova executive, not an OEM quote; Mitsubishi Power says new large-frame deliveries now run to about 2031. He lists four hurdles still in the way: sizing bring-your-own-power at N+1 to N+3 plus fuel cells, gas permitting in Southeast Asia, an owner-operator business model, and long-term service agreements built for grid plants rather than campus load. A slot is not a running plant.