Woster: You Hear the Talk About Data Centers Coming to Rural America?

Woster: You hear the talk about data centers coming to rural America?

Years ago, I wrote several stories about rural electric cooperatives and farm life in the age of high-speed internet. The package focused on the expectation that rural electric cooperatives would play a significant role in delivering broadband service to rural America. They’ve been doing that. A person can find high-speed internet access in more places than ever before, city or country. Now there’s talk about data centers in rural America. An Al…

Your electric bill may be paying for big data centers’ energy use

Utilities are competing to provide electricity to these facilities by offering discounts not available to average consumers.