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April 29, 2025

Big Tech's soaring energy demands make coal-fired power plant sites attractive

  • The scores of coal-fired plants that shut down recently have high-voltage lines connecting to the electricity grid that a new power plant could use.
    • By MARC LEVY
    Associated Press

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    The scores of coal-fired plants that shut down recently or will be shut down the next couple years have a very attractive quality: high-voltage lines connecting to the electricity grid that they aren’t using anymore and that a new power plant could use.

    HARRISBURG, Pa. — Coal-fired power plants, long an increasingly money-losing proposition in the U.S., are becoming more valuable now that the suddenly strong demand for electricity to run Big Tech's cloud computing and artificial intelligence applications has set off a full-on sprint to find new energy sources.


     
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