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With public anger at AI data centers boiling over, all it takes is one bad neighbor to get every data center in town locked out. That’s the story unfolding in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where local officials are revoking waste-dumping privileges for every data center campus connected to municipal water services. As Cowboy State Daily reported, the …
Wyoming lawmakers advanced five property tax reform plans Wednesday. One of the measures, if passed by the Legislature and the people of Wyoming, would change the state Constitution to eliminate residential property tax altogether. The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee advanced five property tax reform plans Wednesday, for consideration in the lawmaking session that opens …
Wyoming’s new AI data center will consume five times more electricity than the entire state’s households combined. Yet no one knows who’s behind it. Located near Cheyenne, the facility will begin with a 1.8-gigawatt capacity and expand to 10 gigawatts more than five times the power used by every home in Wyoming. “The initial 1.8-gigawatt …
The U.S. is opening its first Rare Earth mine in more than 70 years— providing a critical supply of six of the seventeen Rare Earth elements that are used in everything from war planes to semiconductors to our smartphones. This is a crucial step toward breaking China’s stranglehold on rare earths, but let’s not pretend …
State legislators want Congress to hand over all mineral rights and federal public lands in Wyoming except Yellowstone As Western lawmakers float a variety of bad ideas for transferring federal lands to states, a group of Wyoming state senators are making a particularly outrageous request of the federal government. On Thursday, those lawmakers pushed forward …
A federal judge has partially blocked a vast oil and gas drilling project in Wyoming, citing violations of environmental laws and ordering a reassessment of the project’s potential impacts on groundwater. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled on Sept. 13 that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and other federal agencies had failed to properly …
Mayoral candidate Victor Miller, a bespectacled librarian with an AI obsession, stood between an American flag and a Wyoming flag, preaching what he sees as the untapped potential of artificial intelligence in government. AI would be objective. It wouldn’t make mistakes. It would read hundreds of pages of municipal minutiae quickly and understand them. It …
Social media giant Meta (aka Facebook) formally unveiled plans Tuesday for a massive $800 million, 715,000-square-foot Cheyenne data center. They say at the peak of construction it will generate more than 1,000 jobs. CHEYENNE — While Wyoming residents were going about their day-to-day lives in 2019, public officials and economic developers began working behind the …
A group of Republican Wyoming lawmakers want to phase out the sale of electric vehicles in the Cowboy State by 2035, saying the move will help safeguard oil and gas industries. The bill, introduced into the state legislature on Friday, claims electric vehicles will hinder Wyoming’s ability to trade with other states. “Wyoming’s vast stretches of highway, coupled with a lack of electric …
Building a $155 million solar farm with hundreds of solar panels in hail alley in southeastern Wyoming might seem a crazy idea for some. Not Paul Stroud, a director of Cowboy Energy LLC, who sits in safely removed from the worst of the hail in Sheridan in the northern part of Wyoming. Stroud cited a …
If a blockbuster tax reform proposal from Casper Republican state Rep. Steve Harshman goes the distance, most property taxes in Wyoming would be eliminated in lieu of hiking the state sales tax by 2%. Harshman is the sponsor of House Bill 203, which would remove all property taxes for an estimated 97% of Wyoming homeowners. In …
View post on imgur.com The US could soon surpass China as the world leader in rare earth minerals after more than 2.34 billion metric tons were discovered in Wyoming. American Rare Earths Inc announced that the reserves near Wheatland dramatically surpass the Asian nation’s 44 million metric tons, saying it ‘exceeded our wildest dreams’ …
Investor who bought Wyoming Brook coal mine sight-unseen for $2M learns it may contain $37BILLION worth of ‘rare earth’ minerals used for semiconductors, missiles and solar cells Randall Atkins, 71, bought the Brook Mine 12 years ago – but it wasn’t until years later that researchers found the ground contained rare earth elements His rare …
A town in Texas is seeing firsthand the waste stream problem created by spent wind turbine blades. It’s a problem Wyoming has been considering for years, with various proposals to address the issue. While some companies say they hope to repurpose the material for things like concrete, nothing has yet materialized. Mike Gill, a mechanical …
by confoundedinterest17 It’s NOT always sunny in Philadelphia. Particularly when the Philly Fed non-manufacturing survey screams stagflation (a nauseating combination of economic slowdown and inflation). After a positive surprise in July, Philly Fed’s non-manufacturing survey slumped back into contraction in August (from +1.4 to -13.1). Additionally, while respondents continue to expect a growth over the next …