Scott Yappen

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Data Center Richness · What's Next for Onsite Energy and Data Center Power · 3 Mar 2026 podcast

So that kind of puts it in perspective.

Now, it's not like it's getting better, Rich, but

As mentioned, we finished 2025 with a record year and we're excited to announce that we're investing in our production capability in Finland where we're putting nine figures of investment, euros, into our factory that is going to deliver a 35% increase in output of our engines starting in 2028.

Just really excited for those times to come and to keep up with this

Yep.

Yeah.

So we're unique in a number of ways, but one of the things I think about is we're a utility scale power provider.

You know, those big block engines that are nine to 23 megawatts each that can be scaled to, you know, over 500 megawatts if need be.

When data centers began looking for utility scale power gen,

for their bring your own power needs for their off grid continuous power where no utility grid was connected they began to you know reach out to the electric power industry to find out what are you using and what they started to find is over the last couple of decades vartsila has really been uber competitive in the utility business and the ious and municipal electrics

Now we've got about 80 plants in the US in 35 states where we're just looking at 50 to 100 to 400 megawatt plants.

And now with the data center market even growing bigger than that, typical size now can be, oh, the last couple of months we've had pressers out on projects that have been executed at 400 plus megawatts, 500 plus megawatts for the same sites.

And for me,

the Eureka moment was the first time I saw an electrical single line diagram with our engines on it, but that also had other devices like turbines, et cetera.

The total amount was in the gigawatts of electric production for that same campus.

And to put that in perspective,

I looked up how many states don't even have that much power.

And I found about five states that didn't even have enough that much power in their entire state as a single AI factory was going to have.

Just phenomenal to think about.

Yeah.

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