A utility promised to stop burning coal. Then Google and Meta came to town.

Item Type Newspaper Article Author Evan Halper URL https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/08/google-meta-omaha-data-centers/ Publication The Washington Post ISSN 0190-8286 Date 2024-10-12 Accessed 2025-05-08 20:37:51 Library Catalog www.washingtonpost.com Language en-US Abstract Google and Meta targeted Omaha as a digital frontier. But their plans to push the energy transition forward there are not working out. A coal plant is filling the void.