The real cost of computing: America’s data center boom, Colorado’s constraint, and the illusion of low-impact growth
June 3, 2026
(Oil & Gas 360) By Greg Barnett, MBA – The Energy Information Administration did not intend to write a thesis on the future of the American economy. Yet that is precisely what it has done. Hidden in a technical projection is a structural shift as consequential as electrification itself: data centers are rapidly becoming one of the dominant consumers of
