Wyoming's Data Center Boom: Dawson Kluesner on Economic Opportunity, Public Backlash, and the Infrastructure Behind AI

Podcast: Signal & Noise · Signal and Noise

Opublikowano: 2026-10-08

AI may live in the cloud, but the infrastructure behind it is very physical: land, power plants, transmission lines, water systems, construction crews—and communities deciding whether they actually want massive data centers in their backyard. In this episode of Signal & Noise, Rio Longacre and Brett House sit down with Dawson Kluesner, Director of External Affairs for the Wyoming Association of Municipalities and Coordinator for the Wyoming Economic Development Association. Dawson sits at a fascinating intersection: he works with the cities and towns evaluating major infrastructure projects while also working alongside the economic-development community trying to attract in...