America’s power grids need more of everything.
For decades, electric generation has simply kept pace with the nation’s economic growth. That’s set to change as cloud computing giants ramp up construction of data centers to meet demand for online services like artificial intelligence leader OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In other words, electric generation must now grow faster than the economy. Utility company AEP anticipates robust demand growth, particularly in states like Indiana, where it projects as much as a 60% increase in commercial electricity demand in coming years, mostly from data centers, like the $11 billion project Amazon is erecting in New Carlisle, the largest capital project in state history.
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