Babcock & Wilcox — the 159-year-old boiler maker headquartered in Akron, Ohio — announced yesterday that it signed an agreement with Siemens Energy to start work on 20 steam turbine generator sets totaling 1 gigawatt (GW) of capacity for gas-fired data center projects. That's a real bet on gas-fired power demand — and it's being made by a company sitting right on top of the Utica. To view this content, log into your member account.