NextEra, Brookfield Plan $100 Billion Data Center at Kentucky Uranium Site
The campus would draw power on the scale of a large city as Kentucky courts data centres with new energy measures.
- On Wednesday, NextEra Energy and Brookfield announced a more than $100 billion data center campus at the U.S. Department of Energy's Paducah Site in western Kentucky, a former uranium-enrichment facility.
- The project redevelops the former Cold War-era uranium-enrichment facility, leveraging existing transmission capacity, water infrastructure, and fiber connections from the site's previous operations to accelerate development.
- Expected to create approximately 8,000 construction and 600 full-time operations jobs, the campus will support 1.8 gigawatts of compute capacity powered by 2 gigawatts of natural gas and 2.6 gigawatts of battery storage by 2032.
- The companies stated the project fulfills the Trump administration's "Ratepayer Protection Pledge," ensuring infrastructure costs are not passed to residential customers, though the plan requires Kentucky Public Service Commission approval.
- U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright called the project a "crucial roadmap for future projects in the United States," supporting the DOE's American Energy Hubs initiative to revitalize former government sites.
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Brookfield and NextEra Energy are planning a $100 billion data center campus at a former uranium enrichment site in Paducah, Kentucky, as surging demand from artificial intelligence companies drives investment in computing infrastructure and electricity generation. The project is being developed by a coalition that includes Brookfield, NextEra Energy, Big Rivers Electric Power Corp., Jackson Purchase Energy Cooperative and Paducah Power System, …
Brookfield Asset Management and the energy company NextEra Energy are joining forces to build a $100 billion artificial intelligence data center at the site of a Cold War era uranium enrichment plant. Exclusive material for subscribers. To have full access, access the material link and register.
NextEra, Brookfield Plan $100 Billion AI Campus at Former Kentucky Nuclear Site
NextEra Energy and investment firm Brookfield are planning to develop a more than $100 billion artificial intelligence data center and power complex at a former uranium-enrichment plant in western Kentucky. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which owns the shuttered Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, said on July 29 that the companies will lead a coalition of energy, infrastructure, and utility providers to transform part of the Cold War-era fac…
$100 billion AI data center campus planned for Paducah DOE site - KBSI FOX23 News Cape Girardeau News
PADUCAH, Ky., (KBSI) — A coalition of energy and infrastructure companies plans to invest $100 billion in a data center and power-generation campus at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Paducah Site. The privately funded project is expected to create about 8,000 construction jobs and 600 full-time operations jobs, according to the coalition. Brookfield, NextEra Energy, Big Rivers Electric Power Corp., Jackson Purchase Energy Cooperative and Paducah…
NextEra and Brookfield plan a $100bn data campus in Kentucky
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