{"id":239847,"date":"2026-06-28T07:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T12:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/how-ge-vernova-builds-the-massive-gas-turbines-powering-the-ai-data-center-boom"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T12:10:31","slug":"how-ge-vernova-builds-the-massive-gas-turbines-powering-the-ai-data-center-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/how-ge-vernova-builds-the-massive-gas-turbines-powering-the-ai-data-center-boom","title":{"rendered":"How GE Vernova builds the massive gas turbines powering the AI data center boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-ge-vernova-builds-the-massive-gas-turbines-powering-the-ai-data-center-boom.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we think of what the world needs for electrification and what we need to power this AI surge that we\u2019re living, a lot of that stuff comes right out of this factory,\u201d said Koziner.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft just bought seven of them to power its data center in Texas. At 2.7 gigawatts, it\u2019s enough electricity to power about 3 million homes.<\/p>\n<p>GE Vernova turbines are already online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/22\/spacex-ai-colossus-data-center-reflection.html\">xAI Colossus 1<\/a> campus in Tennessee, and nearly a gigawatt more are being deployed at OpenAI\u2019s Stargate project in Texas, according to Cleanview, an organization that tracks data center development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen we think of what the world needs for electrification and what we need to power this AI surge that we\u2019re living, a lot of that stuff comes right out of this factory,\u201d said Koziner. Microsoft just bought seven of them to power its data center in Texas. At 2.7 gigawatts, it\u2019s enough electricity to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}