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Oracle Trucks Natural Gas to Accelerate Data Center Launches in Utah and Texas Amid Grid Delays

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Oracle is trucking compressed natural gas to power data centers ahead of pipeline completion, accelerating compute capacity deployment. The strategy has been used for over a year at a Utah facility and is now being implemented at the OpenAI-linked Shackelford site in Texas and potentially New Mexico's Project Jupiter. While trucking costs are roughly four times higher than pipeline transport and each trailer only supplies enough gas for a 100MW load for 40 minutes, this highlights the industry's shift toward behind-the-meter generation amid severe grid infrastructure delays.

LATEST/Oracle is trucking compressed natural gas to power data centers ahead of pipeline completion, accelerating compute capacity deployment. The strategy has been used for over a year at a Utah facility and is now being implemented at the OpenAI-linked Shackelford site in Texas and potentially New Mexico's Project Jupiter. While trucking costs are roughly four times higher than pipeline transport and each trailer only supplies enough gas for a 100MW load for 40 minutes, this highlights the industry's shift toward behind-the-meter generation amid severe grid infrastructure delays.

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  1. IT之家 · IT业界T2·68 pts

    Oracle Trucks Natural Gas to Accelerate Data Center Launches in Utah and Texas Amid Grid Delays

    Original: 应急举措：消息称 Oracle 利用卡车转运天然气以满足数据中心能源需求

    • Oracle has used trucked natural gas for its Utah data center for over a year and is expanding this to the OpenAI-linked Texas site and New Mexico's Project Jupiter.
    • Trucking natural gas costs approximately 4x more than pipeline transport, with a single large trailer supplying enough gas for a 100MW data center for only 40 minutes.
    • Due to lengthy power infrastructure construction timelines, US data centers are increasingly shifting to behind-the-meter supply or self-built gas generation to bypass permitting delays.