Can Colorado Be a Low-Cost Energy Leader in the Future?
Electricity Infrastructure Needs Jump-Start on Expansion Download a PDF version of this article By Ray Gifford and Adam Peters, attorneys at Kamlet Shepherd & Reichert, LLP in Denver. Gifford is past chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. Techno-pundit George Gilder toured an Ask.com server farm not long ago and described his experience in an article written for Wired. Ask.com is the fastest-growing search engine on the Web. But the Ask.com server farm, which is currently housed on the East Coast, probably won’t be located there much longer. There isn’t enough available electricity to power the servers, hard drives and air-conditioning equipment that is needed to meet Ask.com’s burgeoning business needs, so the company is scoping out property in the Columbia River Valley of the Pacific Northwest, following competitors like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! in a quest for affordable and reliable sources of energy. Electricity is increasingly the fuel of choice for the nation’s
