Exxon Mobil is “well along” in a plan to build its first commercial power plant, fueled by natural gas, to directly supply electricity to data centers, the company announced Wednesday. It’s a shift in strategy for the Spring-based oil and gas giant,

US multinational oil and gas major ExxonMobil has revealed plans for a new 1.5GW natural gas-fired power plant dedicated to powering data centers. The project is in the early stages of development. It would mark the first time Exxon has built a power plant that does not supply energy to its own operations.

ExxonMobil is preparing to join the power generation business, seeing an opportunity to support the electricity supply for energy-intensive data centers.

Exxon Mobil working on gas-powered plant “If the United States follows a similar data center growth trajectory as Ireland, a path setter whose data centers are projected to cons

Exxon Mobil (XOM) is designing a natural gas power plant outfitted with carbon capture technology to meet the demand of technology companies, The New York Times’ Rebecca F. Elliott reports. The plant will be fitted with technology that can capture more than 90% of the facility’s carbon dioxide emissions,

This would be the first time Exxon built a power plant that wasn’t intended to power its own operations, the New York Times reported.

Demand for electricity is rising so quickly in the United States that even Exxon Mobil, the country’s largest oil and gas company, is planning to get into the power business. Exxon is designing a massive natural-gas fueled plant meant to directly supply electricity to data centers.

Exxon Mobil plans to invest heavily into several big projects over the next six years, even as some other oil companies are growing more cautious, the company said at an investor day on Wednesday. All that investment comes at a time when most analysts expect oil prices to fall next year because of a glut—which may be why Exxon stock was down 0.