Electric Co-ops Manage Unprecedented Data Center Growth

Data center development is surging to meet demand for cloud applications, cryptocurrency, streaming services and AI. Electric co-ops are at the center of it, with some fielding multiple new requests at a time to serve data centers. These large loads can benefit co-ops and their communities in a number of ways—and they also pose a host of challenges. Learn more from NRECA's Allison Hamilton, Wabash Valley Power Alliance's Jeff Conrad and Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp.'s JD Lowery.

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Electric Co-ops Manage Unprecedented Data Center Growth is an episode from Along Those Lines by NRECA.

This episode is 38:32 long.

This episode was published on Dec 15, 2025.

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