Fast Power Generation
Proven solutions to support your power demand, development schedule and future growth.
Almost 50% of data center projects risk costly delays or even cancellation due to power challenges.1 The FastPower℠ program from Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) can address your power needs with deployable power in as little as 24 months2 – using reliable power generation technologies with a scalable approach.
- Avoid temporary "bridge power" with a long-term power solution deployed in as little as 24 months
- Low maintenance and operating costs versus standalone gas turbines
- Scalable to provide flexibility for future growth
The proven power of B&W natural gas boilers, paired with state-of-the-art steam-driven turbines, enables you to reduce your deployment schedule versus standalone gas turbine options. Whether your servers need the computing power to run AI workloads or the infrastructure to store essential data, this solution provides the highly reliable uptime and resilience needed for mission-critical data center operations.
Fast to Deploy. Smart to Own.
FastPower℠ compresses deployment timelines to help Data Centers become operational faster. Lower maintenance and operating costs of steam-driven systems enable your operations to run more economically as well compared to traditional standalone gas turbine systems.
Today’s Reliability. Tomorrow’s Flexibility.
While steam-based power generation has been around for over a century, the FastPower approach from B&W also provides flexibility for future growth in multiple ways:
- Modularity enables addition of more units for increased power output as your need grows
- Systems can be designed for later gas turbine integration - adding reliability with three operating modes
- Carbon capture and hydrogen capability can be added in the future
With the FastPower℠ approach and integration of gas turbines to create an “enhanced combined cycle” system, your operation achieves increased reliability versus traditional combined cycle systems3 with three different operating modes (steam turbine only, gas turbine only or both turbines in combined cycle). These separate modes add redundancy to your power system – enabling you to keep running during maintenance and other outages.
The FastPower℠ program from B&W provides a range of proven, long-term and scalable power solutions for AI data centers and other industrial applications. Contact us today to learn more about how we can power your next project.
Chief Technology Officer Brandy Johnson
on B&W's project award with Applied Digital
Artificial intelligence is driving a surge in energy demand, and Babcock & Wilcox is rising to meet it with fast, efficient and reliable power solutions.
In this video, Chief Technology Officer Brandy Johnson discusses how we've partnered with Applied Digital to supply 1 GW of power for a major AI data center project, and are also working with Denham Capital to convert old coal plants into clean-burning natural gas facilities.
With a multitude of data center projects in the pipeline, B&W is ready to help power the future of AI.
“B&W has designed and installed thousands of boilers and has more than 400 gigawatts of installed generating capacity at utility and industrial plants around the world. Our solutions for AI data centers are proven technologies that utilize natural gas efficiently while providing reliable, redundant and readily available power faster than combined-cycle or simple-cycle plants. This approach leverages the core strengths of Babcock & Wilcox and represents an ideal solution to power data centers.”- Kenneth Young, B&W Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Footnotes:
- Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/111947-nearly-half-us-data-centers-planned-2026-facing.html
- Deployment timing based upon official receipt of “Full Notice / Approval to Proceed” and subject to parameters of application
- Integration capability may vary by gas turbine manufacturer and application, talk to your B&W representative for more information