A coalition of consumer advocacy, environmental and renewable energy groups is calling on Kentucky’s utility regulator to study various aspects of utility affordability for ratepayers, including the potential costs of data centers and fossil fuels. In a letter dated Sunday, the groups are asking the Kentucky Public Service Commission to investigate “the drivers of rising energy […]
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Utilities report as many as 30 data centers under discussion in Kentucky
Kentucky communities are grappling with the prospect of hyperscale data center projects — massive, sprawling warehouses of power-intensive computer clusters — potentially moving in. A lot more of them could be on the way. Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities, the state’s largest utility, told the Kentucky Public Service Commission in March that 11 […]
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Driving surge in demand for power, data centers eye Kentucky
The boom in artificial intelligence is fueling a proliferation of new data centers — the computer clusters that power the internet — in “places that maybe we hadn’t thought of before,” an industry spokesman told utility regulators gathered in Louisville last month. Kentucky could be one of those places in the not-so-distant future. The state’s […]