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progree

(12,795 posts)
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 08:11 AM 20 hrs ago

Siemens Energy to Invest $1 Billion in US to Tap Into Power Boom

Source: Bloomberg via Yahoo

Siemens Energy AG will invest $1 billion (847 million euros) in manufacturing capacity in the US over the next two years as power demand surges.

Most of the funds will be spent on expanding existing sites in North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Alabama and New York, as well as a new plant in Mississippi, the German energy infrastructure maker said Tuesday. The investments will focus on gas turbines and grid technology manufacturing, including transformer production and servicing, creating around 1,500 jobs, it said.

"The US is the hottest electricity market at the moment in the world," Chief Executive Officer Christian Bruch said in an interview. "The Trump Administration's push for data centers and speeding that up" is helping to drive demand, he said.

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Electricity demand from data centers in the US will double by 2035 to account for almost 9% of total consumption, according to BloombergNEF, with some observers likening the impact on grids to the advent of air conditioning in the 1960s.


Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/siemens-energy-invest-1-billion-110000881.html



Published 5:00 A.M. CST February 3, 2026

Emphasizing:

The investments will focus on gas turbines and grid technology manufacturing, including transformer production and servicing .
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"The Trump Administration's push for data centers and speeding that up" is helping to drive demand, he said.,


he gurgled ecstatically is more like it.

Not a word about the environmental costs of burning more natural gas -- CO2 and methane emissions for starters, because there's no upside to upsetting the Krasnov gang.

Actually, I thought Bloomberg was at least a little better than this, but that was then and this is now.

And some people wonder how the stock market can keep going up and up even after a full fool year of this admin

Because there is a LOT of money to be made monetarizing away the environment, and in writing crap stories like this ballyhooing it
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Siemens Energy to Invest $1 Billion in US to Tap Into Power Boom (Original Post) progree 20 hrs ago OP
These data centers need lots of water..... where's all that extra water going to come from? IcyPeas 20 hrs ago #1
It's Getting Hotter OC375 20 hrs ago #2
Jobs. But at what cost? littlemissmartypants 17 hrs ago #3

IcyPeas

(25,128 posts)
1. These data centers need lots of water..... where's all that extra water going to come from?
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 08:19 AM
20 hrs ago

OC375

(534 posts)
2. It's Getting Hotter
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 08:19 AM
20 hrs ago

It's a cool place, and they say it gets colder
You're bundled up now, wait 'til you get older
But the meteor men beg to differ
Judging by the hole in the satellite picture
The ice we skate is gettin' pretty thin
The water's gettin' warm, so you might as well swim
My world's on fire, how 'bout yours?
That's the way I like it, and I'll never get bored.

Smashmouth 1999 All Star

littlemissmartypants

(32,651 posts)
3. Jobs. But at what cost?
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 11:16 AM
17 hrs ago

Regarding NC:

...turbine manufacturing at a plant in Charlotte, North Carolina, and will also produce parts elsewhere in the state...


I'm going to have to do some research.

Thanks, progree.

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