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A tsunami of demand for artificial intelligence and data computation promises to plant stacks of servers in Wyoming. Those servers will require a volume of electricity that will eclipse the state’s power generation capacity and transform the physical and regulatory utility landscape in and outside the state, some familiar with Wyoming’s utility industry say.

For example, a joint venture — Crusoe and Tallgrass — recently announced plans for a computational campus south of Cheyenne requiring 1,800 megawatts of electricity, then “hyperscale” to 10,000 megawatts. That’s equal to Wyoming’s existing generation capacity, and it’s merely the latest in a s

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