Expansion Opportunities MidAmerican Energy is expanding facilities in Iowa with a potential 900-acre data center campus in Salix and a planned Walnut wind farm upgrade with aircraft detection lighting. This signals a need for scalable data center infrastructure, colocation, cooling, and mission-critical security solutions, as well as wind-energy integration services and advanced lighting control systems.

Renewables & Efficiency As a major utility with wind assets and modernization efforts, there are opportunities to offer energy management platforms, demand response, battery storage integration, and advisory services for grid reliability, turbine optimization, and cybersecure operational technology.

Security & Compliance The tech stack includes GDPR, CyberArk, OAuth and Microsoft 365 Copilot, indicating a focus on data protection, privileged access management, cloud security, and compliance services that could be extended to third-party vendor risk assessments, secure data workflows, and security operations modernization.

Community & Resilience Partnerships with Habitat for Humanity and awards for emergency response highlight opportunities to propose resilience programs, community solar, disaster recovery planning services, and customer-facing programs that align with their public-facing sustainability and emergency response credentials.

Innovation & Partnerships Recent leadership shifts and acquisition history under the larger Berkshire Hathaway Energy umbrella suggest openness to strategic collaborations, OEM/tech partnerships, and managed services for large-scale IT and OT environments, including data center operations, infrastructure modernization, and energy analytics.