Federal Government to Turn a Kentucky Uranium Plant Into an AI Data Center and Gas Power Complex
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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Federal government to turn a Kentucky uranium plant into an AI data ce
The U.S. Department of Energy is harnessing the artificial intelligence boom in its bid to convert another Cold War-era uranium enrichment site, tapping private equity to fund a $100 billion data center complex that will include its own new natural gas and battery storage power plant in Kentucky. The department selected investment firm Brookfield Asset Management to develop and operate the data center at the government-owned Paducah Gaseous Diff…
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Federal government to turn a Kentucky uranium plant into an AI data center and gas power complex
The U.S. Department of Energy is harnessing the artificial intelligence boom in its bid to convert another Cold War-era uranium enrichment site.
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