Big Tech Turns Back To Wyoming Coal For Reliable Power

America is building new computer data centers along with brains for artificial intelligence.

Data centers worldwide could double our energy needs in the next few years.

But Silicon Valley’s tech giants can't create all of this unless they have enough affordable, reliable energy to run it all.

Massive batterie factories are also on the drawing board across the nation.

Tech giants are finding out that they have no choice but to turn to coal and natural gas power plants to meet energy demands.

One EV Battery Factory in Kansas requires so much energy it will need a coal plant to power it.

So they decided to keep open a coal plant they planned to decommission.

The Kansas EV battery factory story is in the video below.

Energy industry leaders such as Former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, argued that wind and solar energy will fall short of providing the energy needed and cannot do it reliably.

“We’re not going to build 100 gigawatts of new renewables” Moniz said. The Obama-era energy secretary went on to say unmet energy demands brought on by AI, primarily via electricity, would require tapping into more natural gas and coal power plants. When it comes to meeting energy demands with renewables, he said, “you’re kind of stuck.”

Critics argue some of these climate pledges, particularly those heralded by large tech firms, are unrealistic.

Today's technology boom is struggling to find reliable and affordable energy to power it.

This, once again, opens the door for energy-producing states like Wyoming with the state's large coal and natural gas reserves.