Aalo Atomics and Crusoe announced plans for a 2027 proof of concept at Idaho National Laboratory that would use an Aalo reactor to power a Crusoe Spark modular data center running Crusoe Cloud, with t…
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have repurposed the transformer architecture behind ChatGPT to simulate fluid dynamics and heat transfer inside advanced nuclear reactors, integrating it int…
The US Department of Energy has selected the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Western Kentucky, a former Cold War uranium enrichment facility, as one of four federal sites for AI data center develop…
Brookfield and NextEra Energy plan to invest $100 billion to transform part of the US Department of Energy's former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant into an AI data center campus with more than 1.2 GW …
PJM Interconnection, the largest US power grid serving 67 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.C., faces its first-ever capacity shortfall as AI data centers drive a projected 30 GW incre…
Nvidia is in talks with OpenAI to provide $250bn in funding guarantees for a 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio, part of a broader push to bolster OpenAI's infrastructure ambitions. The project, built by…
Nvidia is negotiating to financially back OpenAI's 20-year lease of a $500 billion data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, as part of the Stargate initiative. The facility will deliver 10 gigawatts o…
The US power grid is under severe strain from back-to-back heat waves and surging AI data center demand, prompting Energy Secretary Chris Wright to order data centers to activate backup generators dur…
Westinghouse Electric has secured an $80 billion government contract to build 10 AP1000 nuclear reactors, driven by surging AI data center electricity demand, and partnered with Google Cloud to develo…
AI data center developers are increasingly targeting Native American reservations for their space, water, power, and tax advantages, with Indigenous group Honor the Earth tracking over 100 proposed pr…
A US heatwave is straining the power grid and water supplies, intensifying concerns over the rapid expansion of AI data centers that consume vast amounts of electricity and water. Lawmakers across the…
The US Department of Energy is considering rolling back energy-efficiency requirements for appliances, potentially ending decades of standards that have reduced energy consumption and utility costs fo…
China has reclaimed the title of the world's fastest supercomputer with LineShine, which surpassed the US-built El Capitan on the TOP500 ranking despite US trade restrictions on high-powered computing…
An invited speaker at the US Department of Energy's Office of Science SCAC Quantum Subcommittee Town Hall on June 12, 2026, argued that quantum computing infrastructure governance, procurement cycles,…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission plans to issue guidance by June 2026 to streamline grid connections for large data centers, including those powering AI workloads, addressing a key bottleneck …