Bigger and bigger data centers are leading to proposals for massive electric power transmission lines, sometimes across hundreds of miles.
The AI boom is catalyzing the build-out of some of the biggest, baddest power lines this country has ever seen. These extra-high-voltage wires can carry up to six times the power of other big lines, ...
The MariBell project is a 140-mile, 765-kilovolt power line that would run from Marion, Minnesota to Bell Center, Wisconsin. It's being developed by Dairyland Power Cooperative, in La Crosse, and ...
A proposed 765-kilovolt power line would stretch from southeast Minnesota through Wisconsin's Driftless region. Backers call the line, which would be the highest voltage in Wisconsin, the "backbone" ...