Caterpillar flies to São Paulo the week of a 2GW AI data center power deal

Caterpillar flew from Fort Worth, Texas, to Viracopos International Airport in Campinas, Brazil, on May 26, a 9-hour, 25-minute trip aboard its Bombardier Global 6000, tail number N797CT. The aircraft, part of a four-jet fleet that includes Gulfstream G500s and a Challenger 604, is typically used for executive travel between Caterpillar’s Deerfield headquarters, its Peoria home base, and far-flung mining and energy hubs.

The same week, Caterpillar announced a strategic alliance with American Intelligence & Power Corporation and Boyd CAT to deploy 2 gigawatts of fast-response natural gas generator sets for the Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia, a hyperscale AI data center project, per a January 28 corporate press release. The deal, which includes equipment financing through Caterpillar Financial, underscores the company’s push into behind-the-meter power solutions for AI infrastructure, a theme Caterpillar senior vice president Rob Hoenes called “the energy opportunity that’s changing everything” in a March 2026 company article.

The Brazil trip follows a pattern of international routing from the fleet’s Fort Worth base—recent flights include a May 21 hop from Washington, D.C., to Texas and a May 7 leg from Santa Rosa, California, to Fort Worth. While Caterpillar has no announced Brazil-specific event this week, Viracopos serves São Paulo’s industrial and financial sectors, where the company’s Power & Energy division maintains a significant customer base for mining and energy equipment.