Silverline SVP Joey Marquart moderates a panel, "From Procurement to Profitability: Managing Supply Chain Risk in the Mountain West" at Infocast’s Mountain West Renewables Summit.

A recent public discussion on data centers in Lubbock, Texas, stood out not because of what was decided, but because of what it revealed.

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