What they should probably be looking at is building datacenters. If they had lots of relatively cheap and stable power and cheap real estate (and not too bad weather, as in no hurricanes every month), that's what companies building datacenters look for. You'll find at least one datacenter close to many power plants in the back of beyond, and that's where excess power often goes. Datacenters are power hogs. Oh, and they provide higher paid jobs which are hard to outsource.
The usuals, whatever I post is my opinion, yaddayaddayadda. I'm still learning this, so if you listen to me, well, good luck to you :)