Baker Hughes lands power and cooling orders from unnamed US tech company

Baker Hughes has picked up a fresh set of power generation and cooling orders from a US technology company. The package includes Chart dry coolers built to handle AI workloads. The customer went unnamed, which is fairly standard in a sector where hyperscalers guard their buildout plans closely. Power and cooling in one package Baker Hughes gained cooling capability by acquiring Chart Industries, a specialist in heat transfer and thermal management. Dry coolers address heat rejection to the surrounding air. Chart’s technology is aimed specifically at the high-density cooling requirements of AI-focused facilities. Chart has reportedly secured hundreds of millions of dollars in orders tied to this kind of work. Folding it into Baker Hughes lets the company pitch a combined offering: generate the power on site, then deal with the heat that power creates. A busy year for the power business In the first quarter of 2026, the company logged $1 billion in data center power orders. That single quarter matched the Power Systems business’s entire revenue from 2025. The company has since raised its sights. Its target for cumulative data center power orders across 2025 through 2027 has been revi...