Bedford Management Partners (BMP), Exus Renewables North America (EXUS), and the Energy Innovation Center Institute (EICI) announced an MOU to collaboratively target development of onsite dispatchable power generation for data centers and other critical infrastructure at the Pennsylvania Energy & Innovation Summit, which was hosted by Senator Dave McCormick and included President Donald Trump at Carnegie Mellon University. For AI data centers’ “always on” need, this is one of the few teams concentrating on developing on-site power systems that employ nuclear power stacks, batteries, renewable energy sources, and natural gas.
The team has created a pipeline of onsite power generating prospects that are anticipated to generate billions of dollars in investments over the next several years, and they have established a world-class value chain of partners, including personnel and capital partners.
The data center industry’s power demand has increased at an unprecedented rate, making it impossible for data centers to get their dispatchable electricity only from the US electrical grid.
In order to guarantee America’s energy and AI superiority, a number of industry-leading technologies and services are being combined to deliver high dependability, reduced carbon, onsite power at grid competitive cost. Together with a number of other globally renowned partners, the BMP / EXUS / EICI team brings together some of the most important companies in the power sector, such as Eaton, Emerson, Siemens Energy, and Northeast-Western Energy Systems USA (an INNIO Group company), to energize onsite power with a repeatable, scalable, flexible, and highly reliable energy delivery platform.
This power value chain also emphasizes community involvement and the creation of a competent workforce, according to the EICI’s established track record. The effective construction and long-term operation of data centers and onsite electricity depend on these services.
BMP, EXUS, and EICI are all headquartered at the Energy Innovation Center in Pittsburgh, PA, one of the world’s leading centers for energy ecosystem innovation. This group will have a national reach, with a focus that includes Western PA, Eastern Ohio, and West Virginia, due to this region’s 100+ years of natural gas supply, along with all the other important resources, for data center operations and utility scale dispatchable onsite power generation.
The natural gas fueled engines and turbines are supported by the EXUS solar, wind, and battery technologies and services, and will ultimately include nuclear technologies, to allow for a unique combination of dispatchable onsite thermal and renewable energy. This power stack will have higher reliability and lower carbon emissions than grid power, while remaining cost competitive.
The economic impact analysis suggests that this enterprise could create at least ten 1GW+ data centers including 6,000 new jobs over the next 10 years. The team is also applying nuclear-industry-grade fault analysis to optimize resiliency in this onsite power platform, without relying on much higher cost, full system redundancy.
“This isn’t just another group jumping into the AI data center power market” Rich DiClaudio, CEO & Managing Director of Bedford said. “and this group of companies has been building power, energy systems, and infrastructure solutions for decades.” Our unique new integrated platform includes an industry-leading power stack solution, with high reliability (99.99%) at grid competitive pricing, with a focus on developing community support and the workforce of the future.
