Company File
Natural-gas midstream; pipelines are what actually fuel new data-center gas plants.
Plate I — Pillar-Purity Score
Natgas flow beneficiary; mostly a macro-natgas name.
Methodology — How we score
Plate II — The Thesis
Why it’s on the list.
Williams operates the Transco pipeline, the most strategic gas artery in the eastern US. New gas-fired DC generation requires pipeline capacity Williams already owns. The tollbooth on gas-powered AI.
Plate III — Supply Chain
Upstream & downstream.
See the full chain plate for all 37 names.
Upstream — what feeds WMB
Top of chain within our coverage.
Downstream — where WMB feeds into
Plate IV — Thesis Breakers
What would invalidate this.
- Risk 01Methane regulation tightens
- Risk 02Natgas-to-gas-peaker pivot stalls
Plate V — Also on the Power plate
Siblings by pillar.
- TLNScore 10Owns the Susquehanna nuclear and Cumulus data-center campus feeding AWS; post-bankruptcy compound.
- CEGScore 9Largest US nuclear fleet; Three Mile Island restart for Microsoft — the purest nuclear-for-AI trade.
- VSTScore 8Texas nuclear + gas generation signing hyperscaler PPAs; recent top-performing S&P utility.
- OKLOScore 8Small modular reactor pre-revenue moonshot; Sam Altman-chaired — speculative but on-thesis.
- GEVScore 7Gas turbines, grid equipment, offshore wind; multi-year backlog constraints are the bull case.
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