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Utilities brace for staggering power demands from AI, data centers in Wyoming
The industry's proposals for Wyoming would more than double the state's electrical capabilities, challenging protections for the average ratepayer.
For example, Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power, and its parent company Black Hills Energy, trailblazed the concept with Microsoft back in 2015, leading to a successful series of data center additions that continues today, according to the utility’s Governmental Affairs Manager David Bush. That’s not how utilities work, and besides, data center developers are making similar demands throughout the nation, scouring for whatever new source of electrical generation can be switched on the fastest — be it natural gas, wind, solar or nuclear. The Wyoming Energy Authority is leading a stakeholders’ working group to try to find consensus on a wise regulatory approach that takes advantage of the economic opportunities without putting regular electric ratepayers — and their providers — at risk.
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