Electric Co-ops Manage Unprecedented Data Center Growth

Along Those Lines by NRECA

Dec 15, 202538:32Government & Organizations

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 da...

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