

Retirees and near-retirees are quietly rotating cash into a specific corner of the market:

The electricity demand from data centers is straining the power grid and pushing power prices higher, leading to unpaid utility bills.

RAPID CITY, S.D., July 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Black Hills Corp. (NYSE: BKH) will announce its 2026 second-quarter earnings after the market closes Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, and will host a live conference call and webcast at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, to discuss the company's financial results.

Lead, South Dakota--(Newsfile Corp. - July 6, 2026) - Dakota Gold Corp. (NYSE American: DC) ("Dakota Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to report additional assay results from its 2026 Drill Campaign at the Richmond Hill Oxide Heap Leach Gold Project ("Richmond Hill" or the "Project"). The 2026 Drill Campaign is now complete, and totalled 17,273 meters of infill, expansion, and geotechnical drilling across 112 holes.

RAPID CITY, S.D., June 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Black Hills Corp. (NYSE: BKH) today announced the release of its 2025 Corporate Sustainability Report, highlighting continued progress toward emissions reduction goals, strategic infrastructure investments and innovative solutions to deliver safe, reliable and cost-effective energy across the communities it serves.

Black Hills Corporation is reaffirmed as a Buy, trading at a 12% discount to a $82 fair value estimate. The merger with NorthWestern Energy is on track for 2026, enhancing BKH's growth profile and asset footprint. BKH projects robust adjusted EPS growth of 6.3% annually, supported by secular demand drivers and a $4.7B capex plan.

RAPID CITY, S.D., June 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Black Hills Corp. (NYSE: BKH) today announced that its Colorado electric utility has filed a rate review application with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission requesting recovery of the necessary capital infrastructure and operational costs required to deliver safe, reliable electric service to over 102,000 customers in Southern Colorado.

As hyperscalers race to deploy massive data centers to train the next generation of large language models, they are hitting a physical wall. Artificial intelligence is no longer constrained by the supply of advanced semiconductors, but it is fundamentally bottlenecked by the availability of raw electricity.
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