Data centers and gas demand make boring pipelines great again

New pipeline construction is almost as hard to find in New York and New England as the Loch Ness Monster is in Scotland. But there’s now a NESE (pronounced “Nessie”) sighting in Brooklyn.

Oklahoma-based Williams Companies will break ground April 14 on the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline that expands its Transco natural gas network in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

“That’s the first pipe in New York in over a decade,” Williams CEO Chad Zamarin told Fortune. “What...