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Caterpillar signs deal for CHP plant with 1.1GWh integrated BESS at data centre campus in Utah

By District Energy posted 08-12-2025 16:02

  

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Caterpillar has agreed to deploy a combined heat and power (CHP) plant featuring more than a gigawatt-hour of batteries for a new data centre complex in Utah, US.

Engineering equipment manufacturer Caterpillar announced the project, for data centre developer Joule Capital Partners, yesterday (7 August).

Joule is developing the 4,000-acre High Performance Compute Data Center Campus in Central Utah, designed for the energy and computation-intensive workloads of artificial intelligence (AI) industry tenants.

The CHP plant would have a total generation capacity of 4GW, including combined cooling heat and power (CCHP) solutions, Caterpillar G3520K gas generator sets, 1.1GWh of grid-forming battery energy storage system (BESS) technology and backup generator sets.

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