American Electric Power reached a deal to purchase up to 1.6 GW of linear-generator capacity from Mainspring.

Utility Dive reports that American Electric Power reached an agreement to buy up to 1.6 gigawatts of Mainspring linear generators. The stated figure is generation capacity covered by the deal, not an announced amount of operating data-center load.

The “up to” qualification is material: the supplied headline does not establish that the entire 1.6 GW has been delivered, installed, or commissioned. The available article excerpt also does not disclose minimum purchase obligations, pricing, delivery milestones, or individual generator ratings.

The same article separately discusses AEP’s Bloom Energy fuel-cell project in Wyoming. Mainspring’s linear generators and Bloom’s fuel cells are different equipment programs, and the supplied material does not assign the Bloom project’s Google contract to the Mainspring agreement.