Enverus: Why data centers are looking to natural gas for behind-the-meter power

Original source: https://www.enverus.com/blog/why-data-centers-are-looking-to-natural-gas-for-behind-the-meter-power/

Source date: 2026-05-28
Retrieved: 2026-07-30T03:23:45Z
Source class: third party research

What this source can establish

• Independent energy-market analysis says behind-the-meter natural gas has emerged as a commercially viable near-term option for AI-scale facilities because grid interconnection routinely takes five or more years in constrained markets.
• The article says natural gas turbines and reciprocating engines can deliver continuous dispatchable baseload at data-center scale with deployment timelines short enough to matter.
• It says BTM gas trades grid constraints for capital intensity, operational complexity, pipeline access, basis exposure, firm transport and upstream supply reliability requirements.
• It estimates a 1 GW data center consumes approximately 140 MMcf/d of natural gas.

What it cannot establish

• It cannot establish NUAI's actual gas supply, transport capacity, basis exposure, equipment procurement or operating costs.
• It is not a site-specific engineering report for TCDC.

Limitations

• Vendor/market-intelligence publication; not an audited engineering opinion.
• Some metrics refer to Enverus Intelligence Research analyses not fully reproduced in the article.