NorthWestern Energy’s Merger Is All About Data Centers and Secrecy

NorthWestern Energy’s mega monopoly 'merger' is all about data centers

Over the last several months, NorthWestern Energy has vehemently denied that data centers are behind its desire to “merge” with another South Dakota utility, Black Hills Energy. However, when company executives announced the deal to investors, they repeatedly pointed to…

NorthWestern Energy’s merger is all about data centers and secrecy

As an intervener for the past six months in the Montana Public Service Commission’s NorthWestern Energy “merger docket,” 350 Montana is deeply worried that Montana ratepayers are losing control of their utility — as our lands are polluted and precious…

NorthWestern's mega-monopoly merger is all about data centers

Data center power supply and server racks. (Getty Images)During the last several months, NorthWestern Energy has vehemently denied that data centers are behind its desire to “merge” with another South Dakota utility, Black Hills Energy. However, when company executives announced the deal to investors, they repeatedly pointed to data centers as a top reason for the two utilities’ efforts.  NorthWestern is currently asking the Montana Public Servi…

NorthWestern Energy merger could reshape power rates across the Hi-Line

NorthWestern Energy, the largest provider of energy in Valley County according to FindEnergy.com, may soon not exist. That is, if a proposed merger with Black Hills, Inc. – a Rapid City, S.D.-based company – goes through. The Montana Public Services Commission (PSC) is set to take up that question when evidentiary hearings begin on May 12. The hearings, expected to last four days, will consider wh...