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The boom in artificial intelligence is fueling a proliferation of new data centers — the computer clusters that power the internet — in “places that maybe we hadn’t thought of before,” an industry spokesman told utility regulators gathered in Louisville last month.

Twenty-one states, including Illinois and Kentucky, joined an effort the Biden Administration launched earlier this week to strengthen the power grid across the county.

A former eastern Kentucky coal mine is being revived into a storage facility that creates hydroelectric power. Gov. Andy Beshear joined officials on Thursday from the U.S. Department of Energy to announce the project in Bell County.

The Kentucky Senate has approved legislation aimed at developing an energy plan for the Commonwealth. Proponents say it’s about electricity reliability.

The Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage Project is undergoing a long federal permitting process to store electricity from the grid in the form of water.

Transmission lines carry electricity from power plants to cities across Tennessee. Transmission lines can also carry electricity across the country — if utilities allow it.

The water outages in Jackson, Miss., began Feb. 15 as a winter storm swept across the state. An untold number of residents are still without clean water weeks later.