SEATTLE (Oil Monster): North American mobile compressed natural gas (CNG) solutions provider Certarus has been awarded a contract to serve as the primary natural gas supply for a 60MW hyperscale data center project in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The natural gas supply will be fed by a new CNG supply hub southeast of the city, which the company expects to commence operations at this month. The gas supply agreement will support the undisclosed data center through commissioning and early operations until permanent infrastructure is in place.
"Across both data center and industrial markets, customers are increasingly limited by infrastructure that cannot keep pace with energy demand,” said Dale Winger, president, Certarus. “Certarus provides an integrated, scalable solution to help customers access reliable energy to move valuable projects forward. The new Utah hub strengthens our growing network of strategically positioned supply points that allow us to serve customers quickly and efficiently across multiple end markets."
The company has signed several gas supply deals with data center firms over recent years, including a two and a half year agreement with an unnamed US data center customer for around 135MW of power, signed in April.
Last September, the firm signed a 50MW supply deal with an unnamed data center provider, expected to serve as a temporary bridge solution.
Calgary headquartered Certarus specializes in providing temporary natural gas supply solutions to a variety of offtakers. It does this through a virtual CNG pipeline, which provides temporary bridging solutions prior to the construction of a physical pipeline.
Courtesy: www.datacenterdynamics.com
