New APR Energy, a mobile gas power provider, has partnered with Duos Technologies to deploy four mobile gas turbines with a combined capacity of 100MW for a major unnamed US hyperscaler.
APR is expected to complete the installation in the next ten days with support from Duos.
“We are excited to deploy New APR Energy’s first 100MW to a US-based data center. This deployment is a good proof point for our investment thesis for Behind-the-Meter power demand,” Chuck Ferry, chairman and CEO of New APR Energy and CEO of Duos, said.
“We are currently in discussions with many other data center operators and hyperscalers seeking similar support and expect to announce more deployments in the coming weeks,” he continued.
The deployment is part of the portfolio of mobile gas turbines owned by funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group. Last month, Duos and Fortress closed an asset management agreement to deploy and operate 30 mobile gas-powered turbines.
The turbines have a combined capacity of 850MW and will be managed in partnership with Fortress affiliates.
The partners intend to use the turbines as an immediately deployable fast-track solution to meet urgent power needs in the data center market and other sectors, including assets managed by Duos subsidiary Duos Edge AI.
The deal was initially signed in November and was finalized on December 31, 2024. Fortress Investment Group acquired the portfolio of assets from APR Energy.
In December, Duos, through its subsidiaries Duos Edge AI and Duos Energy, announced plans to develop four 50MW data centers at the Pampa Energy Center (PEC) in Texas.
The deployment of behind-the-meter natural gas to support data centers and cryptocurrency mining operations has grown significantly over the past year.
For example, last November, AXP Energy inked a binding Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with Blackhart to sell natural gas to power modular crypto mine data centers in Colorado.
Before this, In October, MARA launched a 25MW micro data center operation across oil wellheads in Texas and North Dakota, powered exclusively by excess natural gas.
