B&W says county approved permits for its North Dakota data-centre project

Babcock & Wilcox chairman and chief executive Kenneth Young said on 9 November 2026, in the company's third-quarter results release from Akron, Ohio, that its data-centre project in North Dakota is on track and that the county has approved its conditional-use and zoning permits.

Young said the steam turbines, boilers and other equipment with long delivery times are in manufacture and advancing quickly, and that nearly all the permit applications the project needs have been submitted. He said the company's data-centre pipeline now exceeds 6 gigawatts of opportunities.

B&W also says its total pipeline is above $16 billion and covers 6 gigawatts of additional power capacity for utilities, industrial customers and data centres.

B&W defines the pipeline as work not yet under contract that is under active discussion and could reach a go-ahead decision within the next 36 months. It calls the figure an internal management measure and says it cannot guarantee the work will turn into revenue in the period expected, or at all.