Babcock & Wilcox to Convert Coal Plants to Gas for Data Centers

September 11, 2025--Written by Daniel Graeber for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Investments in the U.S. and European markets will target efforts to convert coal-fired power plants to run on natural gas to meet the growing demand from power centers, Babcock & Wilcox (Akron, Ohio) said. "Natural gas offers cost-effective and rapid deployment to support the development of data centers until renewables can match the pace of electricity demand growth," the company said.