America’s insatiable appetite for electricity – turbocharged by the massive power requirements of hyperscale AI data centers – is driving utilities and commercial energy producers to increase grid capacity and build new power plants.
Data Center Builders: Speed Time to Revenue Generation with Prefabricated Cable Conveyance
We can’t build data centers fast enough. A quick Google search shows over 2,700 new data centers are planned or currently under construction across the U.S. in 2026, ranging from small edge sites to co-location facilities and hyperscale campuses. This unprecedented expansion is being fueled by the rapid adoption of AI, machine learning, cloud and streaming workloads. These applications require huge quantities of electricity to power and cool the vast arrays of computers, data storage and networking resources that run them.
Design Considerations When Cabling Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
Cable conveyance is one of most overlooked yet mission-critical aspects of utility-scale energy plant design. Whether power is generated from fossil fuel or renewable sources, pumped directly to the grid or temporarily stored in a battery array, poor cable management can result in reduced energy harvest, safety hazards, spiraling maintenance costs, material waste, shortened asset lifespans and operational delays.
Bridge the Construction Skills Gap with Snake Tray
Older, highly experienced cable installers and licensed electricians are retiring from the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Electrical industry at a rapid pace. Combined with the boom in hyperscale data center construction and a lack of apprentice-class talent entering the labor pool, many electrical contracting firms have found themselves at the center of a perfect storm: Too much work and not enough skilled workers.
Cabling a Renewable Energy Plant? Get it Right with Snake Tray
Renewables: More Popular and Bigger Than Ever
Boosting the capacity and reliability of our power grid is a priority for electricity providers, especially given hyper-scale data centers’ insatiable appetite for power. Utilities are increasingly turning to clean energy sources (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal) and battery energy storage systems (BESS) to augment their power generation and distribution capabilities.
Snake Tray: Your Go-to Partner for Customized Solutions
If there’s one thing that sets Snake Tray apart from every other cable tray manufacturer, it is our capacity to build innovative, customized solutions for clients’ unique problems.
Snake Tray Solutions Can Help Avert Looming Energy Crisis
Learn why one of the world’s leading authorities on energy and technology believes we will face critical power shortages soon if we don’t act quickly, and how Snake Tray products can be part of the solution.
Snake Tray Brings Sustainability and Compliance to Construction
Sustainability and compliance are two hot topics in the construction industry today. Every project is designed with an eye on its environmental impact while meeting various building codes and standards for safety and liability. This article discusses how Snake Tray cable management and power distribution systems support those efforts.
10 Things to Consider when Selecting a Cable Tray
We want to see your next construction project succeed whether you choose Snake Tray as your partner for cable management solutions or not (although we don’t know why you wouldn’t).
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Requires Intelligent Cabling
From ChatGPT and virtual assistants to fraud detection, medical diagnoses, predictive eCommerce engines and automating countless other tasks, AI is impacting how we see and interact with the world around us.
