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Anthropic is purchasing natural gas turbines from Caterpillar capable of generating up to 1.7 gigawatts, according to a Financial Times report. The equipment was originally ordered by supplier OnePWR, which reportedly could not secure financing to complete the purchase, so Anthropic went directly to Caterpillar instead.
Anthropic has agreed to pay $3.4 billion to assume Texas supplier OnePWR Solutions' existing order for 1.7 gigawatts of gas-fired generators, originally placed with Caterpillar nearly two years ago. The deal, reported by Reuters to have closed in late September, also covers engineering and construction needed to install the equipment at Anthropic's data centers, without Anthropic acquiring OnePWR itself.
Caterpillar CIO Jamie Engstrom, who leads a global IT team of over 2,200 employees across 28 countries, is expanding the company's three-decade use of AI into advanced analytics, automation, and supply chain optimization. Engstrom frames the effort around 'the art of the possible,' emphasizing that AI should augment employees' capabilities rather than replace their jobs.
Caterpillar is extending the autonomous systems expertise it built in mining—covering haul trucks, drilling and remote operations—into construction sites, quarries and internal tools. CTO Jaime Mineart said the company's Cat AI Assistant now lets field technicians use voice commands to retrieve repair procedures and identify parts, drawing on data from roughly 1.6 million connected machines and over 16 petabytes of structured data.