LandGate's "Behind the Meter" Natural Gas Data is Fueling the AI Energy Demand

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution has created an unprecedented surge in energy demand, driven by hyperscale data centers that require massive, reliable, and often redundant power. This and other major industry investments have intensified the focus on natural gas power plants as a critical, scalable solution to complement renewables.

However, data center developers assessing natural gas face two major obstacles: understanding where and how much is available, and the true, long-term viability of the gas supply.

At LandGate, we solve these problems by providing the premier and only comprehensive data solution that connects the original source of natural gas production directly to the end-user terminal facility. We don't just show what's in the pipe; we go "Behind the Meter" in natural gas to show you how much power is truly available, where it comes from, and how long it will last.

LandGate has the most comprehensive data center site selection and due diligence resources in the world where users can view both natural gas and digital infrastructure insights in one platform.  Users can get instant access to in-depth natural gas production and forecast insights on a single well or an entire load zone region.

LandGate is the only platform to seamlessly integrate all energy production types and land data, offering the only complete picture required for the energy infrastructure of the future.

LandGate runs complete analytics of the amount of natural gas left to be produced in every well in the United States.  This granular production and forecasting data is then aggregated to the load zone level and displayed in LandGate’s Power Pricing module where users can view both natural gas and electricity price analytics.

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The NextEra Imperative: Securing the Natural Gas Supply

The urgency to secure scalable natural gas capacity is underscored by major industry investments. NextEra Energy, a key investor in LandGate, recently announced its strategic agreement to acquire Symmetry Energy Solutions from Energy Capital Partners.

According to NextEra Energy Resources president and CEO Brian Bolster, the acquisition "is expected to complement our buildout of natural gas pipelines, strengthen our natural gas platform to continue to serve large loads and further position NextEra Energy Resources to meet the surging demand." The press release highlights that "the ability to efficiently move gas is more critical than ever," driven, in part, by the rapid adoption of AI.

As NextEra Energy's elite data provider, LandGate is uniquely positioned to empower this expansion. LandGate provides the granular data required to execute this kind of growth.

The Critical Difference: Upstream Analytics and Offtake Locations

For data center developers, understanding natural gas requires shifting from the simplicity of the electrical grid to a more nuanced, balanced system.

A 101 Guide to Gas Power Siting:

1. It’s Not a Simple Tap: Unlike an electric transmission line, you cannot simply tap into a gas pipeline. Gas systems are highly balanced and require compression; unilaterally pulling out significant volumes would throw the entire system out of balance.

2. The Gas "Substation": Gas must be distributed through Natural Gas Offtake Locations. These facilities are the crucial terminal points where gas pipes connect, and volumes are split and sent to various end-users, acting as the equivalent of an electrical substation.

To guarantee a reliable, decades-long power source for a data center, developers must know the true, long-term capacity of the gas flowing into these Offtake Locations. This is impossible without upstream analytics and is a key component for investors.

LandGate tracks natural gas midstream capacities the same way they collect and track/forecast electrical pricing nodes.  Combined with LandGate’s proprietary well based forecasting and economics, they can create insights never before seen in the data center and power delivery industries.

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LandGate’s Key Analytical Edge: The Source Advantage

LandGate, having started in the oil & gas industry, is the only full-stack energy data provider with true upstream natural gas data and analytics. LandGate natural gas data comes from the very source: the wells themselves. LandGate provides the key to the source, how much gas is left and where it comes from.

For data center planning, this means:

• Long-Term Forecasting: LandGate can forecast how much gas is truly available in the ground in a region, how much is left to produce that will then feed into midstream systems- up to 30 years from now.

• Capacity Assessment: LandGate knows how much gas is going into midstream systems now and in the future, providing the data center world with available gas volumes translated to capacity (historical, present, and forecasted).

• First-Point Analytics: LandGate is the first point of analytics, allowing us to accurately determine if the local gas supply can actually power your multi-billion-dollar data center or power plant.

LandGate is the best solution for data center and power developers as it is the only full-stack energy analytics platform where users can fully analyze natural gas production and economics while also analyzing grid power offtake and ATC.  At the click of a button, users can understand long term forecasts and economics of single wells, specific natural gas assets, or entire regions to determine if there is enough remaining gas in the ground to supply their data center or power project.

The Complete Datasets for Energy Infrastructure

LandGate is the only platform with the complete datasets to cover the natural gas power plants push for data centers. The LandGate platform provides the gas-side equivalent of the most advanced electrical grid analytics, allowing users to vet sites with full confidence.

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The LandGate platform consolidates all critical layers for energy infrastructure, including:

Infrastructure Category	Consolidated Datasets
I. Natural Gas & Hydrocarbons	Gas Offtake Locations, Natural Gas Pipelines, Compression Stations, Gas Plants, Gas/Oil Well Locations (Producing, Drilled, Permitted, Abandoned), Upsides, CO2 Pipelines, CO2 Emitting Facilities.
II. Data Center & Power	Data Centers (Active, Planned, Proposed, Denied, Site Control), Power Stations, Redundancy Power Sources, Load Projects, Data Center Power Sources.
III. Communication & Water	Fiber Optics (Long Haul, Regional/Metro, Dark Fiber, Internet Exchange Points), Cell Towers (5G/4G Network), Water Utility Lines, Sewer Lines, Water Treatment Plants.

LandGate is the only platform where users can instantly determine the long-term viability of natural gas and electricity delivery for large load projects.

LandGate is uniquely positioned to offer insights on natural gas. Other data providers cannot provide this level of "Behind the Meter" natural gas analysis. Without this, they are offering an incomplete, risky solution for the massive energy demands of the AI age. Book a demo with some of our experts to view the complete datasets.

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