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Buyer’s guides, spec references, project milestones, and company updates from FabTek Industries — straight from Hazlehurst, Mississippi.
Buyer’s guides, spec references, project milestones, and company updates from FabTek Industries — straight from Hazlehurst, Mississippi.
“For most fabricators, the grid boom is a national headline. For us, it's a local one.”
A $25 billion wave of hyperscale datacenter investment — anchored by Amazon — has landed in central Mississippi, paired with Entergy's largest grid upgrade to date. The build-out reshaping the national power grid is happening in the same counties FabTek has operated in for years.
When the demand is in the region and the fabrication is in the region, the math gets simple: shorter freight, tighter coordination, and a partner already investing in capacity ahead of the curve in the same state the build is happening.
Read the full storyArticles, announcements, and milestones — written to share. Each post has its own link, so it travels well on LinkedIn and brings readers back here.
Roughly $2B in new transformer plants won’t clear the backlog on their own — the binding constraint is a winding workforce that takes years to train.
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The largest machine ever built, explained — how power travels from a distant plant to the outlet on your wall.
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A 10-point due-diligence checklist for vetting a fabricator — capabilities, certifications, capacity, traceability, and lead-time reliability.
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How a device with no moving parts changes voltage — and why the grid can't run without it.
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Specifying switchgear enclosures for hyperscale datacenter builds — rating, gauge and finish, thermal and access, and lead time.
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More than $21B in capital investment landed in Mississippi in 2025, with multi-billion-dollar follow-ons in 2026 — the causes behind the pattern, from a fabricator that scaled inside it.
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Follow a single electron from the power plant, across the grid, and into your wall — the whole journey.
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How to write a build-to-print spec package that avoids rework — drawings, tolerances, materials, finish, and acceptance criteria.
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The fenced maze of steel and wires, explained — what a substation actually does and why it's so equipment-dense.
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What datacenter EPCs should confirm when sourcing bus ducts — ampacity and spec, lead time, surge capacity, and single-source coordination.
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When mills stop negotiating and lead times hit multi-year highs, every one-off PO restarts the queue. What a committed agreement lets your fabricator do — on volume, schedule, staffing, capex, and quality.
Read post →The grid build-out has reached Mississippi — a $25 billion wave of hyperscale datacenter investment and a major grid upgrade are reshaping our own backyard.
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When a utility partner asked if we could absorb their datacenter bus duct demand, we said yes — and had a dedicated line running in weeks, not months.
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Our production footprint has more than tripled since 2024 — over 250K sq ft across four Mississippi sites today, with 500K targeted by 2030. Capacity, added ahead of the grid's curve.
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What actually causes a blackout, how the grid protects itself in milliseconds, and why the lights sometimes just flicker.
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Year-to-date data center starts hit $84.1B through July — nearly triple last year — while electrical supply chains delay half of all projects. How builders and fabricators keep schedules together.
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Why hyperscale EPCs benefit from single-source fabrication — bus ducts, enclosures, and structures with the electrical build under one roof.
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Why a transformer that once took months now takes years — the materials, the demand, and the import problem.
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How to choose the right enclosure rating — 3R vs. 4 vs. 4X — plus gauge, finish, and gasketing to confirm before you order.
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A single campus can draw as much power as a small city — here's how it gets from the grid to the server rack.
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“The transformer shortage” isn’t one shortage — GSUs, substation units, distribution transformers, and regulators each stress a different part of the manufacturing chain.
Read post →How domestic fabrication reduces supply-chain risk — lead time, tariff exposure, and continuity — and what Built in the U.S.A. buys you.
Read post →Electricity is made and used in the same instant — how operators keep supply and demand matched, second by second.
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Capacity added ahead of demand — a 50K sq ft expansion on the path to 250K sq ft across four Mississippi production sites in 2026, with 500K sq ft targeted by 2030.
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What to confirm before you award a substation steel package — drawings, galvanizing, certifications, lead time, and shipping.
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Nearly everything in a substation yard stands on fabricated steel — and operators estimate 4,200–5,100 new or upgraded stations by 2035. The anatomy, piece by piece.
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How to vet a fabricator's surge capacity — shifts, backup equipment, overflow, and continuity — without sacrificing quality.
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FabTek now wires out what it builds — components mounted, harnesses run, and cabinets fully assembled to your drawings under our ISO 9001:2015 system. A tested, pre-wired deliverable instead of split-vendor coordination.
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A utility buyer's guide to awarding steel fabrication — capabilities, certifications, finish coordination, capacity, and documentation.
Read post →A buyer's guide to specifying substation support structures — dead-end vs. A-frame, galvanizing, lead time, and what to confirm before you award the package.
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The industry spent three years managing equipment queues. The next constraint is the crews who install the equipment — and the projects adapting are moving field hours into the shop.
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A deep dive on NEMA 3R, 4, and 4X — what each protects against, where each fits, and how to avoid over- or under-speccing.
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We're proud to partner with Industrial Steel Company (ISC) — pairing their heavy-structural expertise in substation frames, dead-end and A-frame structures, and transmission steel with FabTek's transformer and electrical build for a single source across the metal and the make.
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Tubular vs. lattice transmission structures — right-of-way, load, cost, and lead time, and what actually drives the choice.
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What ISO 9001:2015 and AWS-certified welding really mean — what they guarantee, what they don't, and what records to ask for.
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Factory construction reset to roughly triple its 2021 baseline, grid capex is headed past $1.4T, and the load is already contracted. Why this build-out runs a decade — supply-constrained the whole way.
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Hot-dip galvanizing vs. paint and powder coat for substation steel — corrosion protection, life-cycle cost, and when to specify each.
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Single-source — metal and electrical under one roof — removes the vendor handoffs where power-equipment schedules slip.
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When to outsource transformer coil winding — capacity, quality systems, and the single-source advantage of pairing windings with metal.
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AI and hyperscale growth are stretching power-equipment lead times — how datacenter demand reshapes schedules, and how to protect your dates.
Read post →Welded vs. bolted transformer tanks — sealing, lead time, repairability, and cost, and how to choose for your application.
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