{"id":1041627,"date":"2026-10-08T08:07:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041627"},"modified":"2026-10-08T08:12:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:42:52","slug":"black-hills-plans-1-8-billion-investment-to-power-googles-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/08\/black-hills-plans-1-8-billion-investment-to-power-googles-data-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Hills plans $1.8 billion investment to power Google&#8217;s data center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Hills Corp said on Tuesday it signed agreements to power a proposed Google data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and plans to spend $1.8 billion from 2027 to 2029 on new generation capacity, as tech firms race to secure electricity for power-hungry AI data centers. <\/p>\n<p>* Black Hills said it will build 564 megawatts (MW) of new generation capacity for the Cheyenne project <\/p>\n<p>* The project is expected to draw on a 2.7-gigawatt (GW) resource mix, including reserve margins, with power deliveries set to begin in late 2027 and peak load expected in 2030<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Hills Corp said on Tuesday it signed agreements to power a proposed Google data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and plans to spend $1.8 billion from 2027 to 2029 on new generation capacity, as tech firms race to secure electricity for power-hungry AI data centers. * Black Hills said it will build 564 megawatts (MW) of new generation capacity for the Cheyenne project * The project is expected to draw on a 2.7-gigawatt (GW) resource mix, including reserve margins, with power deliveries set to begin in late 2027 and peak load expected in 2030<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041650,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041627\/revisions\/1041650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}