Venture Global, one of the United States' fastest-growing liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporters, raised its full-year profit forecast for 2026 on Tuesday, 10 November 2026, after reporting record third-quarter earnings — and used the moment to unveil its most ambitious pivot yet: building off-grid power plants to supply electricity directly to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. The Arlington, Virginia-based company now expects 2026 adjusted core earnings of between $10 billion and $10.3 billion, up sharply from its previous forecast of $8.7 billion to $9.1 billion, after third-quarter adjusted core profit of $2.6 billion beat Wall Street expectations. It also confirmed plans to begin delivering compute capacity for data centers in late 2028 and to scale to about 5 gigawatts (GW) by the end of 2031, powered by natural gas from its own Louisiana sites rather than the public grid. Illustration: A liquefied natural gas export terminal on the Louisiana Gulf Coast at dusk, wit...