How a 93-Year Pressure Vessel Heritage Is Serving the Most Demanding Infrastructure Market of the Decade
The data center market is experiencing the most significant infrastructure buildout in a generation. Driven by the exponential compute demands of artificial intelligence, cloud migration, and real-time digital services, data center operators are constructing hyperscale facilities that consume more power than small cities, and they need every supporting system to perform without exception, around the clock, for decades.
That requirement, mission-critical uptime, long-life infrastructure, zero tolerance for failure, is exactly the environment that TRIARC Corp has been building pressure vessels for since 1933.
This is not a pivot. It is a recognition: the data center market needs the same things every industrial operator we have served for 93 years needs. ASME-certified vessels. Complete documentation. Traceable materials. In-house manufacturing and inspection. Delivered on schedule to a project that cannot wait.
Through TRIARC Tank in North America and TATSA in Latin America, TRIARC Corp is positioned to serve data center operators, EPC contractors, and hyperscale developers with the full range of pressure vessel infrastructure their facilities require.
The Data Center Power and Cooling Crisis, and What It Means for Pressure Vessels
The scale of the current data center buildout is difficult to overstate. According to Rystad Energy, the United States alone has over 100 gigawatts of data center demand coming online between 2024 and 2035. U.S. electricity demand is projected to grow 16% by 2029, driven largely by data center expansion. Individual hyperscale facilities are now being sized at hundreds of megawatts, power loads that strain regional grid infrastructure and force operators to build energy resilience into their facility design from day one.
The result: data center operators can no longer rely on grid power as their only energy source. They are building on-site generation, backup power systems, and thermal energy management infrastructure at unprecedented scale, and pressure vessels are at the center of all three.
Where TRIARC Tank Serves the Data Center Market
TRIARC Tank manufactures pressure vessels and storage tanks across the full range of applications that data center infrastructure requires. Our Mexico manufacturing facility produces vessels to ASME Section VIII standards, using U.S.-sourced steel with full material traceability, and ships from 8 U.S. distribution nods in Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Colorado, and Washington.
Propane and Natural Gas Backup Power Storage
On-site backup and primary power generation for data centers is increasingly propane- and natural gas-fueled. The National Propane Gas Association has identified data centers as one of the fastest-growing propane application markets in the United States. Behind-the-meter gas-fired power plants require certified bulk fuel storage that meets ASME Section VIII requirements, state jurisdictional inspection requirements, and NFPA 58 and 54 installation standards.
TRIARC Tank manufactures propane and LPG storage vessels from compact units to tanks exceeding 120,000 gallons, certified to ASME and, through TRIARC Corp, to CSA B51 for Canadian operations and European PED for export markets.
Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Tanks
Cooling is the second-largest energy consumer in any data center, and as rack power densities climb toward and beyond 100 kW per rack in AI-optimized facilities, the cooling load per square foot is increasing dramatically.
Thermal energy storage tanks act as a thermal battery: storing chilled water or glycol solution during off-peak hours and releasing that stored cooling capacity during peak demand periods.
This shifts energy cost to lower-rate periods, reduces peak cooling system load, and (critically) provides a buffer that prevents sudden temperature swings that could trigger thermal shutdowns of mission-critical computing equipment.
TRIARC Tank manufactures large-diameter, ASME-coded tanks appropriate for TES applications, built to the dimensional, pressure, and material specifications required by data center cooling system engineers.
CO₂ Fire Suppression Vessel Systems
High-pressure CO₂ fire suppression is widely used in data center transformer rooms, switch rooms, UPS rooms, and other equipment areas that require fast, non-water-based suppression. The data center fire detection and suppression market is projected to grow from $1.3 billion in 2024 to $1.8 billion by 2030, driven directly by hyperscale data center expansion. TATSA, TRIARC Corp’s Latin American manufacturing brand, has manufactured CO₂ storage and pressure vessels for over 71 years.
TRIARC Tank supports CO₂ vessel applications in North American data center markets with ASME-certified vessels designed for the specific pressure and material requirements of CO₂ fire suppression service.
The Documentation and Certification Requirement for Mission-Critical Applications
Data center operators and the EPC contractors who build their facilities have procurement standards that exceed typical industrial requirements. A vessel failure in a data center does not just create a safety incident, it creates a service outage that can cost operators millions of dollars per hour.
TRIARC Tank and TATSA ship every vessel with the complete documentation package that data center procurement standards require: the ASME Form U-1 Manufacturer’s Data Report signed by an Authorized Inspector; National Board registration certificate; heat-number-traceable material certifications from U.S. steel mills; NDE procedures and examination records; welder performance qualification records; and pressure test documentation.
This is the standard we have applied to every vessel for 93 years. It is also exactly what data center procurement teams are asking for.
TRIARC Corp: The Parent Company Behind Both Brands
TRIARC Corp is the parent company of TRIARC Tank in North America and TATSA in Latin America. The TRIARC Corp corporate umbrella provides customers with access to the combined certifications, capabilities, and expertise of both brands under a single corporate relationship.
TRIARC Corp holds ASME Section VIII Div. 1 and Div. 2, CSA B51 (Canada), European PED, and National Board certifications. TATSA additionally maintains NOM compliance for Mexican operations. This certification profile means that TRIARC Corp-manufactured vessels can be deployed in U.S., Canadian, Mexican, or European data center projects under a consistent corporate documentation standard.
The 2026 Procurement Reality for Data Center Vessel Buyers
Data center construction is operating under significant schedule pressure. Hyperscale operators announce facilities and expect them to be producing compute capacity within 12 to 24 months. EPC contractors working on data center projects are managing procurement timelines that leave very little room for supplier delays.
TRIARC Tank’s distribution network (8 centers across the continental United States) provides inventory availability and delivery capability that purpose-built industrial fabricators often cannot match. For data center projects in Texas, Virginia, Georgia, Arizona, and other high-concentration markets, TRIARC Tank can deliver standard-configuration vessels from regional distribution inventory without the 16 to 24 week fabrication lead times that fully custom orders require.
Looking Ahead
The data center market will continue to expand for the foreseeable future. AI compute demand shows no sign of plateauing. Grid constraints are pushing operators toward on-site energy infrastructure. Cooling system density requirements are increasing with every new generation of AI hardware. And the requirement for certified, documented, mission-critical infrastructure is only going to intensify.
TRIARC Corp (through TRIARC Tank and TATSA) has been building to the standards that data center infrastructure demands for 93 years. We did not build that capability for this moment. But we are ready for it.
Contact TRIARC Corp today to discuss data center pressure vessel requirements.
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