Oracle is using a new power strategy to keep many of its data centers on track: trucking natural gas directly to the server farms. The company is considering using this approach to speed up a build in New Mexico, where a gas pipeline needed to help power one of its crucial data centers is delayed. Bloomberg’s Brody Ford joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech” to discuss Oracle’s strategy.
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@StyxStyx-xz7
October 9, 2026 at 2:59 pm
US infrastructure sucks.
@GhostinDebt
October 9, 2026 at 3:25 pm
Thirty trucks a day. That’s not a stopgap, that’s a symptom. Power infrastructure is the real bottleneck in this buildout cycle.
@MAbed
October 9, 2026 at 8:57 pm
it’s just an accident waiting to happen, insurance companies should look into it
@Temptit
October 9, 2026 at 10:46 pm
Really, we have a diesel shortage and they are trucking out natural gas.. forward-thinking geniuses of the year in the data center industry aren’t they.
@Temptit
October 9, 2026 at 10:54 pm
You know it’s kind of even more messed up, when you slap one of these down near town. The town has peaks and valleys if you where to put the power on a graph. Peak power usage is generally between 2 to 9 you know everybody’s home and awake.
Now if you were to draw a data centers usage of power on a graph you would find it’s just a straight line across 24 hours a day at a certain rate.
Now what happens is when you get a heat wave, the power of the town is using will generally increase because you know everybody’s got to stay cool they got to plug the fans and then the AC units. Which increases demand and has overtaxed the grid on its own, now you’re adding a data center on top of that.
Which leads to rolling brownouts, but they have priority contracts with the power companies meaning they don’t experience the burnout. it’s just everybody else that has to deal with it.
@리설주-v7m
October 10, 2026 at 11:56 pm
아니 시발 왜 관련 인허가도 안받고 돈을 먼저 쏟아부은거야?