Data Center, Meet and Nuclear power

State lawmakers grapple with energy demand for data centers
Legislation from Texas to Georgia could impose fees and rules to safeguard the electric grid and keep a lid on household utility bills.
Texas Needs Equivalent of 30 Reactors to Meet Data Center Power Demand
Demand on the Texas power grid is expected to expand so immensely that it would take the equivalent of adding 30 nuclear plants’ worth of electricity by 2030 to meet the needs.
Natural Gas Surges to Meet Data Center Power Needs
The rapid expansion of data centers, driven by AI and cloud computing, is causing a significant shift in the US power sector, with increasing reliance on natural gas and a push for clean energy solutions amidst grid connection challenges.
Last Energy to deploy 30 nuclear reactors in Haskell to power wave of Texas data centers
Last Energy plans to plant 30 micronuclear facilities in Haskell County, as energy companies move to address the voracious power needs of data centers fueling the artificial intelligence boom. The nuclear technology startup announced Friday that it plans to break ground at a 200-acre site in Haskell,
Next-gen nuclear startup plans 30 reactors to fuel Texas data centers
Last Energy’s ambitious 600MW project aims to sidestep grid constraints and fast-track nuclear deployment—and it's suing the government to go faster.
Last Energy plans to build 30 'micro' nuclear power plants for Texas data centers
Last Energy, a Washington D.C.-based startup, plans to build 30 “micro” nuclear power plants an hour north of Abilene in response to “overwhelming demand” from data centers in Texas over the last year,
Last Energy plans to deploy 600 MW of microreactors to power Texas data centers
The company is exploring front-of-the-meter and behind-the-meter options for a phased deployment that would eventually add 600 MW of nuclear capacity to the ERCOT grid.
Startup wants to power Texas data centers with small nuclear reactors
Last Energy, a startup developing small modular nuclear reactors, has embarked on its biggest project yet, securing early approval to build 30 units on the open plains of North Te
Amazon loses fight to exempt data center from energy regulation
Minnesota regulators denied Amazon’s request to exempt a data center’s 250 backup generators from a permitting process that ...
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WSJ Debunks AI Data Centers Jobs Myth
Although data centers are often touted as creating thousands of jobs, the reality is often that full-time post-construction ...
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STAMP board to consider proposal for region's largest data center
Spanning 900,000 square feet and requiring 250 megawatts of power, the data center would be the largest in the region, and ...
Meta in talks to raise $35 billion for data center financing led by Apollo, Bloomberg News reports
Apollo Global Management is in talks to lead a roughly $35 billion financing package for Meta Platforms to help develop data ...
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Man who threatened to burn down xAI's Memphis data center charged with terrorism
A Tennessee resident who bought explosives and threatened to burn down a data center in Memphis belonging to Elon Musk's xAI ...
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Atlanta’s data center market isn’t just growing fast. It’s unprecedented
The Atlanta region emerged as the country’s top data center market for leasing activity in 2024, dethroning Northern Virginia for the first time.
The AI Data-Center Boom Is a Job-Creation Bust
Tech and political leaders tout them as an employment bonanza, but data centers need very few workers in very large spaces.
Amazon can't skip permitting process for data center generators, MN utilities commission decides
On Friday, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission voted 4-0 to reject a request for a permitting exemption on Amazon's ...
Amazon must prove it needs 250 diesel generators at Becker data center, Minnesota utility regulators say
Minnesota utility regulators on Friday said Amazon must prove it needs 250 backup diesel generators at its proposed data ...
Data center campus progressing rapidly; EV battery plant ready to go vertical
Amazon Web Services aims to have 18 data centers completed or underway on both sides of Indiana 2 near Larrison Boulevard or ...