Mitsubishi Heavy plans $490 million expansion for U.S. gas-turbine capacity

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries plans to expand its Georgia factory to serve the rush to build data centers. The $490 million investment will increase U.S. gas-turbine manufacturing and maintenance capacity.

Here’s what the investment covers:

• The Georgia factory expansion is intended to serve the rush to build data centers.
• More manufacturing capacity will go toward gas turbines, a key component in power plants that generate electricity using natural gas.
• Maintenance capacity will grow alongside manufacturing, so the expansion is not limited to producing new equipment.

Why care? This is a planned $490 million investment in equipment used by natural-gas power plants. For infrastructure engineers, it is an investment in gas-turbine manufacturing and maintenance capacity to track alongside the compute buildout.

Sources: asia.nikkei.com