The director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development flipped through a slideshow at an October meeting about the future of power in the state. She landed on a slide showing large business projects the department is trying to attract to Missouri.
“I think this is the money slide, right?” said Michelle Hataway.
The slide displayed 10 data centers that the office is courting. Their peak electric demands were huge, reaching as high as 2,000MW, which is almost the entire output of Ameren Missouri’s largest power plant, the Labadie coal plant in Franklin County. In 2024, the largest single Ameren customer had a peak demand of 32MW…