The United States is embarking on its biggest energy buildout in a generation. One that will likely need all participants in the country’s infrastructure development ecosystem to not just collaborate and but ‘co-innovate.’
From offshore oil and gas exploration to utility-scale renewables, nuclear to the country’s much talked about liquefied natural gas terminals - a wave of energy projects are either in development or potentially on the horizon.
This need not come as a surprise. With the proliferation of hyperscale data centers - a space where the U.S. is leading the world in numbers and size - expected demand for power (and related water and cooling solutions) is growing exponentially.
The American Society of Civil Engineers reckons that of the $10 trillion or so needed stateside over the next 10 years, a fifth ought to be allocated to energy infrastructure, with a keen a focus on building resilience into the nation’s power grids.
Much of this would require additional natural gas and micro as well as macro nuclear energy projects alongside renewables. Under president Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Energy also deems brownfield coal-fired power sustenance to be a part of the solution.
