{"id":1030002,"date":"2026-08-20T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030002"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:19:03","slug":"demand-from-us-data-center-boom-radiates-out-through-factory-supply-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/demand-from-us-data-center-boom-radiates-out-through-factory-supply-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand from US data-center boom radiates out through factory supply chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generac is best known for making backyard generators that rumble to life after power failures. <\/p>\n<p>But artificial intelligence is its new frontier. <\/p>\n<p>The Waukesha, Wisconsin-based company is spending $250 million by the end of next year to equip multiple factories to make beefed-up versions of its generators for data centers. The order backlog for those machines already stands at $1.6 billion, and the company expects to add about 1,000 workers, a 10% increase in its headcount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generac is best known for making backyard generators that rumble to life after power failures. But artificial intelligence is its new frontier. The Waukesha, Wisconsin-based company is spending $250 million by the end of next year to equip multiple factories to make beefed-up versions of its generators for data centers. The order backlog for those machines already stands at $1.6 billion, and the company expects to add about 1,000 workers, a 10% increase in its headcount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030032,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030002\/revisions\/1030032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}