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Computing facilities representing about 30% of all planned U.S. data center capacity plan to power their operations with behind-the-meter resources, according to an analysis published last week by the energy research shop Cleanview.
Ninety percent of those projects were announced in 2025, which Cleanview said indicates that data center developers are growing impatient with large-load interconnection queues that can stretch up to seven years in some regions.
Of the behind-the-meter assets Cleanview could identify through permits or purchase orders, about 75% use natural gas as a fuel, and “virtually none of the developers planned to build renewables in the short term,” Cleanview founder Michael Thomas wrote in the analysis. While buyers of the largest gas turbine models generally face multiyear backlogs, data centers can procure smaller machines — such as mobile generators, reciprocating engines and aeroderivative turbines — within months as they race to power up, Thomas wrote.
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