The state’s Oklahoma Innovation Expansion Program this year distributed grants of up to $150,000, with a total of over $15 million to companies in 61 communities across the state.

In 2024, one data center in Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the state’s residences with water for five days.

Using less electricity as a response to high demand had been a nonstarter for big tech companies. That might be changing.

With data centers buying up electricity, residential customers are digging deep to make payments. “The challenge,” said a source, “is when the demand for the product increases really fast, the

American Electric Power is hoping to develop a fuel cell-powered data center in the Hilliard area that will rely on a natural gas pipeline to be built by a West Virginia company and its Ohio subsidiary.

Google quickly raised its stake in the company, while Google-backed Fluidstack said it will expand a data center campus.