FILE - Cars drive past data centers on July 16, 2023, in Ashburn, Va. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)
FILE - Actor Ethan Hawke, right, talks with Charles Gaines as they attend the Mi'kmaq community's water ceremony on the shores of Pomquet Harbour to support the aboriginal call for a moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, near Antigonish, Nova Scotia, on Oct. 26, 2015. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP)
FILE - An Oncor Electric Delivery lineman crew work on repairing a utility pole that was damaged by the winter storm that passed through Odessa, Texas, Feb. 18, 2021. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP, File)
FILE - Brayan Santos, left, and Theodore Tanczuk, right, of solar installer YellowLite, put solar panels on the roof of a home in Lakewood, Ohio, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
JANESVILLE – In the wake of Hurricane Helene's destruction across the southeastern United States, two local electric linemen volunteering with Rock Energy Cooperative left last Wednesday to help restore power in South Carolina.

