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GN2 at the cape is contracted out to Air Liquide SA.

https://usa.airliquide.com/air-liquide-and-nasa-renew-agreement-kennedy-space-center
>Air Liquide Large Industries U.S. LP today [August 14, 2013] announced that NASA has renewed its agreement to supply nitrogen and related pipeline launch support services for NASA’s current and future space programs. Since 1968, the Air Liquide plant has provided personnel, materials, and gaseous nitrogen at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

There have been some issues with them in the recent past

https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/04/24/nasa-sls-artemis-1-return-to-vab/
>Meanwhile, teams from Air Liquide will upgrade the gaseous nitrogen supply that leads into the spaceport through a pipeline. NASA found that the nitrogen gas supply was not sufficient for the high demands of the Space Launch System, a rocket larger than any other currently flying from the Florida spaceport.

https://spacenews.com/cape-congestion-worlds-busiest-spaceport-stretched-to-its-limits/
>Petro described a challenge the center faced supporting the Falcon Heavy launch of USSF-67 from Launch Complex 39A in January. Delays in the launch of Artemis 1 from the center had postponed planned maintenance of facilities run by a contractor, Air Liquide, which provided commodities like gaseous nitrogen needed to support the launch. The lead engineer for Air Liquide “was getting really nervous about maintenance, safety and risks associated with the system going down, that was going to impact this national security mission.” Ultimately, SpaceX brought in its own equipment to provide gaseous nitrogen to support the launch.

That said, it's not immediately clear if the current problems are due to AL, the fact that a lot of the Cape is still running on infrastructure from the 1960s, or the fact that Cape Canaveral is busier than it's ever been and its commodities support is getting badly overstressed.