Stephanie Hughes

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Caterpillar, maker of those big yellow machines, is profiting from the AI boom.

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Caterpillar, which manufactures heavy-duty equipment, including asphalt pavers, diesel engine locomotives, and industrial gas turbines, has been around for 101 years.

And now the company seems to be one of the big winners of the AI infrastructure build-out.

Big tech companies are working as fast as possible to get their data centers up to power artificial intelligence.

Some are building their own natural gas plants to provide electricity for those data centers.

Enter Caterpillar, maker of electric generators.

Marketplace's Dan Ackerman has been reporting on this.

So what role is Caterpillar playing in this data center build out?

Caterpillar has been around a long time making heavy duty equipment.

How does that translate to the work it's doing on data centers?

We'll be right back.

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We're back with Marketplace's Dan Ackerman.

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