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Oracle Moves Gas by Trucks to Avoid Data Center Power Delays

Bloomberg Technology Thursday 08 October 2026, 16:42 UTC By Brody Ford and Julian Hast 1 min read
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Oracle Moves Gas by Trucks to Avoid Data Center Power Delays Oracle Corp. is using a novel power strategy to keep several data centers on track: trucking natural gas directly to the server farms. The truck deliveries kept a data center on the outskirts of Salt Lake City moving forward for more than a year as Oracle waited for a gas pipeline to be built and integrated with its machinery, according to people familiar with the work. The company also is using this approach to get initial work...

Oracle Moves Gas by Trucks to Avoid Data Center Power Delays Oracle Corp. is using a novel power strategy to keep several data centers on track: trucking natural gas directly to the server farms. The truck deliveries kept a data center on the outskirts of Salt Lake City moving forward for more than a year as Oracle waited for a gas pipeline to be built and integrated with its machinery, according to people familiar with the work. The company also is using this approach to get initial work done at one of its campuses being built for OpenAI in Shackelford County, Texas, one of the people said.
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