Who makes LNG and virtual pipeline for AI data centers

Not every site that wants gas has a pipeline. Liquefied natural gas cools gas to a small fraction of its volume so it can be trucked or railed in, which is what a virtual pipeline means: delivery by vehicle to a site with storage and regasification equipment on it rather than a connection to a network. For a data center this is a bridge rather than a destination. It costs considerably more per unit of energy than pipeline gas, and it introduces a logistics dependency — a continuous stream of deliveries, on-site storage, and vaporisation equipment — that a pipeline connection does not have. Where it makes sense is a campus whose generation is ready before its pipeline is, or one sited where a pipeline will not be built, in the same way rented generators bridge a late grid interconnection elsewhere in this catalog. The suppliers split between equipment makers, who build the liquefaction, storage tanks and vaporisers, and the merchant suppliers who sell the delivered molecule as a service. What to look for is that distinction, the intended duration — a bridging arrangement that becomes permanent is an expensive way to run a plant — and the storage volume on site relative to consumption, since the whole arrangement fails if deliveries stop for weather or road closure.