If you think our devoted reports on the booming expansion of data centers in this country is all wrong, then ask yourself why Energy Transfer is spending more than $5 billion to ship natural gas to Arizona.
Energy Transfer, the firm with a large Oklahoma City office operation which used to be Enable Midstream before it was acquired in 2021 in a $7.2 billion deal, plans to expand its Transwestern pipeline carrying gas from the Permian Basin in a westerly direction. And it’s all in the name of providing fuel to power, yes, data centers.
Marshall McCrea, co-CEO of Energy Transfer in Dallas talked about it during a recent conference call. At the same time, Arizona Public Service Co. and Salt River Project said they plan to buy capacity on Transwestern’s recently announced Desert Southwest expansion project, all in the name of supporting planned data centers in Arizona.
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