Embattled former BP CEO takes over Wyoming hyperscaler as first woman leader of Big Oil giant becomes new BP chief

Embattled former BP CEO takes over Wyoming hyperscaler as first woman leader of Big Oil giant becomes new BP chief

Bernard Looney, whose tenure as CEO of BP ended with him embattled in controversy, is entering the AI age as the new CEO of Wyoming-based Prometheus Hyperscale, leading a bevy of data center campus developments in the Cowboy State as well as the Lone Star state of Texas. Looney, who pushed BP toward renewables in the energy transition, resigned suddenly from that company’s CEO post in 2023 amid a probe by the company into undisclosed personal re…