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Wind power has run into some headwinds, and not the kind that spin its turbines.  Recently, President Trump has decided to wage war against the

“We have a lot of headwinds,” acknowledges Neal Rickner, CEO of wind startup AirLoom Energy. To prove that it can generate as much power as those tall boys, AirLoom broke ground on its pilot site northwest of Laramie, Wyoming, on Wednesday, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. AirLoom has always been targeting the military as a possible customer — no surprise given Rickner’s background as an F/A-18 pilot for the U.S. Marine Corps — but more recently, the company has been talking with data center developers.

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