--- title: "Crusoe ordered 13 ProEnergy generator sets on GE's own jet engine core, skipping GE Vernova's six-year queue" description: "GE Vernova's queue makes its pricing power, but the used and converted machines that skip it, some built on GE's own CF6 core, set a ceiling on that power. The bet is whether the queue holds to 2032." publisher: "The Inference" section: "Power" published: 2026-11-10T16:49:07.423Z modified: 2026-11-10T16:49:07.423Z canonical: https://theinference.org/article/crusoe-ordered-13-proenergy-generator-sets-on-ge-s-own-jet-engine-core-skipping-ge-vernova-s-six-year-queue language: en keywords: "GE Vernova, Crusoe, Gas Turbines, Data Centers, Power" --- # Crusoe ordered 13 ProEnergy generator sets on GE's own jet engine core, skipping GE Vernova's six-year queue > GE Vernova's queue makes its pricing power, but the used and converted machines that skip it, some built on GE's own CF6 core, set a ceiling on that power. The bet is whether the queue holds to 2032. [GE Vernova](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/ge-vernova) is selling turbine slots for 2032 delivery, and the customers who cannot wait are bypassing its queue with machines built on GE's own jet-engine core [4][2]. That is the tension every GEV holder, the stock's ticker for GE Vernova, is now paying for: the queue makes the pricing power, and the bypass undercuts it. The queue is real. [New US gas turbines take six years on average to deliver](https://finance.yahoo.com/energy/articles/ai-data-centers-buying-used-211603766.html), [orders top 100 gigawatts](https://www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/corporate-news/siemens-energy-stock-faces-ai-driven-turbine-supply-crunch/70480260) against annual manufacturing capacity of 60 to 70, and by 2028 projected demand of 129 gigawatts will still outrun about 87 gigawatts of capacity [1][3]. GE Vernova sold multiple 2032 slots last quarter, priced gas orders more than 20% above the end of 2025, and [lifted its gas backlog from 53 to 64 gigawatts](https://convexityos.com/blog/ai-power-suppliers-q3-2026) [4]. We covered what that queue does to its cash on October 28, when it paid $9 billion for Trench Group hours after beating its own guidance (/article/ge-vernova-pays-9-billion-for-trench-group-hours-after-beating-its-own-guidance) [4]. What is new since Monday is the documented market for machines that skip the queue, and who builds them. ## The bypass runs on GE's own engine [Crusoe](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/crusoe), the AI infrastructure developer, [signed for 13 ProEnergy PE6000 generator sets in April](https://cryptobriefing.com/crusoe-proenergy-gas-turbines-ai-data-centers/), 650 megawatts, arriving by summer 2027: a 2027 date on a six-year wait [2]. The PE6000 is built on the GE CF6-80C2 engine core, so the shop selling around GE Vernova's schedule is using GE Vernova's own aerospace hardware [2]. And Crusoe is also a GE Vernova customer, holding an order for roughly 29 LM2500XPRESS packages, nearly a gigawatt; the same buyer sits in both camps [2]. Used turbines trade at $1.5 to $1.7 million per megawatt against $2 to $2.5 million new, roughly $0.5 million to $1 million below new units, in a secondary market brokers call very hot [1]. [xAI](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/xai) already runs eight converted turbines at Colossus 2, its Mississippi data center, and [on-site fuel cells from Bloom Energy](https://chipdispatch.com/articles/bloom-grew-revenue-138-last-quarter-ge-vernova-booked-29-3b-in-orders), the fuel-cell maker, skip the queue entirely [2][5]. *Chart: **Used iron clears at $0.5 to $1 million per megawatt below new** Range chart comparing the price per megawatt of used gas turbines, about $1.5 to $1.7 million, against new turbines at about $2 to $2.5 million.* *Dollars per megawatt. Brokers describe the secondary market for used machines as very hot; the band shown is the stated range for each class, not a precise quote. Source: Reuters via Yahoo Finance [1]. [1]* *Chart: **Turbine demand outruns factories, and the gap widens by 2028** Bars comparing global gas turbine orders of about 100 GW today against manufacturing capacity of 60 to 70 GW, and 2028 projected demand of 129 GW against expected capacity of about 87 GW.* *Gigawatts. Orders and 2028 projected demand versus manufacturing capacity, shown at both ends of the stated 60-70 GW range; capacity and demand figures for 2028 are projections. Sources: Reuters via Yahoo Finance [1]; Jefferies via Ad hoc News [3]. [1][3]* ## Who pays, and what to watch The developer wins, getting power in 2027 at a discount [5]. GE Vernova carries the substitution risk. Its stock already prices a 21.4% Power EBITDA margin, which CEO [Scott Strazik](https://theinference.org/markets/people/scott-strazik) called a historically weak quarter [5]. If the queue holds to 2032, GEV is the cleanest way to own AI power; if a used market priced half a million to a million dollars per megawatt below new iron is a ceiling on pricing, the multiple is the risk [5]. Two markers settle it. If fourth-quarter gas orders price below the roughly 20% premium over late 2025, the used market is biting [5]. If total backlog clears $200 billion in the same quarter, the queue is still winning [5]. ## Takeaway GE Vernova's six-year turbine queue underpins its pricing power, but a hot secondary market in used and CF6-converted machines, which Crusoe is buying at $0.5 to $1 million per megawatt below new, caps it. Watch whether fourth-quarter gas orders keep their 20% premium and whether the backlog clears $200 billion. ## Sources 1. [Yahoo Finance/Reuters, AI Data Centers Are Buying Used Jet Engines as New Power Turbines Take Six Years, 9 November 2026](https://finance.yahoo.com/energy/articles/ai-data-centers-buying-used-211603766.html) 2. [Crypto Briefing, Crusoe orders 13 gas turbines from ProEnergy to power AI data centers, 9 November 2026](https://cryptobriefing.com/crusoe-proenergy-gas-turbines-ai-data-centers/) 3. [Ad hoc News, Siemens Energy stock faces AI-driven turbine supply crunch, 9 November 2026](https://www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/corporate-news/siemens-energy-stock-faces-ai-driven-turbine-supply-crunch/70480260) 4. [Convexity, Vertiv, Quanta, GE Vernova Q3 2026: paid before they build, 10 November 2026](https://convexityos.com/blog/ai-power-suppliers-q3-2026) 5. [Chip Dispatch, Bloom Energy vs. GE Vernova: Powering the AI Data Center Boom, 9 November 2026](https://chipdispatch.com/articles/bloom-grew-revenue-138-last-quarter-ge-vernova-booked-29-3b-in-orders) --- Crusoe ordered 13 ProEnergy generator sets on GE's own jet engine core, skipping GE Vernova's six-year queue — The Inference. 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