Black Hills published its 2025 annual report highlighting an announced all-stock merger agreement with NorthWestern Energy. The company said it invested about USD 900 million in 2025 to expand and modernize electric and natural gas infrastructure, including energizing the 260-mile Ready Wyoming transmission project. It also reported progress on a 99-megawatt Lange II natural gas-fired generation facility in South Dakota, expected to enter service in the second half of 2026. Black Hills said it served power for construction of Meta’s AI data center in Wyoming and expects operations to begin in 2026. The company reported its data center demand-request pipeline rose to more than 3 gigawatts and said it plans to serve up to 600 megawatts of demand from existing customers by 2030.
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