The demise of the coal industry left much of Appalachia in economic tatters, with lost jobs, spoiled water, and depopulated communities across the coalfields of Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia.

Michigan has rapidly emerged as one of the nation’s most unexpected hubs for new data center development, drawing massive interest from California-based tech companies. The surge followed Gov.

(Bloomberg/Amy Thomson and Mark Bergen) — Alphabet Inc.’s Google will receive the right to buy a 5.4% stake in Cipher Mining Inc. as part of a multi-year data center deal with Fluidstack, an ...