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>Interstate 80 stretches 2,919 miles from New Jersey on the East Coast to California on the West. That’s made it a superhighway, carrying tons of goods across America from one coast to the other, and bringing along hundreds of logistics hubs or warehouses all along the way. But it’s not just a superhighway when it comes to transporting goods across the nation. It has also become an information superhighway, too. In the past year, $24 billion in data centers were announced across 15 projects, all somewhere along I-80, according to Site Selections’ Conway Project Database, a global database of corporate facility expansion projects. Part of the reason for that is a major transcontinental fiber line that is co-located along Union Pacific rights of way, as well as along I-80. But the trend does have a very noticeable gap when it comes to Wyoming.

Archive: https://archive.today/AzX5c From the post: >>Interstate 80 stretches 2,919 miles from New Jersey on the East Coast to California on the West. That’s made it a superhighway, carrying tons of goods across America from one coast to the other, and bringing along hundreds of logistics hubs or warehouses all along the way. But it’s not just a superhighway when it comes to transporting goods across the nation. It has also become an information superhighway, too. In the past year, $24 billion in data centers were announced across 15 projects, all somewhere along I-80, according to Site Selections’ Conway Project Database, a global database of corporate facility expansion projects. Part of the reason for that is a major transcontinental fiber line that is co-located along Union Pacific rights of way, as well as along I-80. But the trend does have a very noticeable gap when it comes to Wyoming.

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I80 is rugged as fuck for a lot of it's expanse. I get what the article is trying to say, and it is right in terms of the state has a lot of under utilized space. But the state is rugged as fuck as a whole. So even if they could get some wind mills and batteries up, finding good land for a footprint is kinda difficult outside of the big cities

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Yeah, the primary problem makes sense though. Its the power grid. There just are not a lot of parts of the state that has major transmission lines to hook into.

It would be nice to use the power IN Wyoming rather than selling it to Commiefornia like a lot of the power generated in WY. Also, pajeet hate's cold and wind... Great place to build infrastructure where pajeet won't want to work no matter what they are paid.

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I remember reading that SMRs were being considered for large parts of both Utah and Wyoming specifically for the reason of trying to connect more of the state to SOME kind of grid. Even a 300mw reactor would be good for the rural parts where no one really needs a lot of power.

I agree with you completely though. It's not just power, but water that the fucking leech state robs from everyone else. It's almost as if building miles of tract housing in the middle of literal fucking deserts like palm desert or Temecula was a horrible fucking idea.

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Well, realistically anyone that needs power in Wyoming has it. The vast majority of the land is government owned and cant/wont be developed and there are little to no places where you have a house in Wyoming that can't get some sort of grid power.

Wyoming is being used as a test-case for SMR mainly because they can build them out where there is basically zero population and most of the people in the state don't really care. If you tried to build it in NYC you would have protesters shutting down the city because "nuclear bad, I don't know why but nuclear bad".

I do agree about the stupidity of some city's existing. Vegas is a great example of "what the fuck"?

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If you want an actual answer, it is probably the price of water. Modern data centers use a ton of water for cooling, and Wyoming has some of the most expensive water in the country.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/water-prices-by-state

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That is a good point. At one time Budweiser wanted to put a brewery in Wyoming by Laramie but the locals basically said fuck off and we don't have the water you need. They built the brewery in Ft Collins Colorado instead.