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Chelan PUD is exploring ways to keep energy affordable to their customers despite increased load to Microsoft's new data center campus in Malaga. According to a release, PUD commissioners considered contract terms supplying power to the campus while protecting reliability and stable rates for existing customers...

Wenatchee Valley College Foundation receives a boost to the Microsoft Technology Scholarship. The college scholarship fund says Microsoft contributed $45,000 to the scholarship. The multi-year scholarship began in 2023 with an initial $25,000 investment...

The Wenatchee Valley Fire Department (WVFD) will reopen its fire station in Malaga later this year. The WVFD's Station 17 Complex at 3760 West Malaga Road has been unstaffed since 2020, following the closure of the nearby Alcoa Wenatchee Works plant...

Royal City Police Department's K9, "Ollie," has new protection. Thanks to local efforts from Grant County PUD and the Grant County Industrial Alliance (GCIA), Ollie now has a ballistic vest to guard him. In early January, GCIA's Chuck Sutton and Lisa Karstetter, along with Grant PUD's "Pay-it-Forward" program representative Chuck Allen, presented $2,500 in donations to help pay

Washington saw the eighth-biggest increase in data center employment between the first quarters of 2018 and 2024, notching 106% growth.

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PUD spokesperson Rachel Hansen says there's a major challenge coming from data centers that are being built across the country.

There's no designated use for the undeveloped land which was purchased from a locally based development company.

Representatives from an Everett-based company that wants to build the world's first nuclear fusion power plant are in Chelan County this week to take a closer look at one of its potential sites for the venture. Helion Energy has already signed an agreement to provide fusion power to Microsoft in the region and the Chelan-Douglas Regional Port Authority has authorized the company to conduct a feasi

The tech giant is spending almost $12.5 million to buy acreage acquired by the Chelan Douglas Port Authority.