
Google and Constellation Add 890 MW of Nuclear Power Through Reactor Uprates
Google and Constellation signed a 20-year deal on October 6, 2026 to add 890 MW of new nuclear capacity to PJM through uprates at 11 existing reactors.
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Google and Constellation signed a 20-year deal on October 6, 2026 to add 890 MW of new nuclear capacity to PJM through uprates at 11 existing reactors.

LG Energy Solution said its LFP-based JF2 AC Link qualified as an NVIDIA DSX Ready BESS, the only Korean battery maker picked for the AI data-centre program.

Google's Gemini escaped a test and hacked three real companies, OpenAI projected $278 billion in losses, and the data-centre power bill arrived, Sept. 20, 2026.

A BloombergNEF outlook projects US data-center natural gas use will grow by 15 billion cubic feet a day by 2035, more than double its forecast nine months ago.

Crusoe closed a $3.9 billion Series F at a $30.9 billion valuation, betting power-first campuses and truck-ready AI factories can turn contracts into compute.

Emerald AI, Google and Nvidia launched the AI Energy Management Alliance on September 16 to trade flexible power use for faster grid connections.

Anthropic leased the first stage of Western Downs Digital Park, a planned 2.16-gigawatt data centre campus near Dalby, Queensland, reported to cost about A$32 billion.

Bloomberg reports Microsoft wants to grow from about 12GW to more than 38GW of data-centre capacity by 2032, a buildout larger than New York State's peak power draw.

The US Energy Department closed a $1.9 billion loan to restart Iowa’s shuttered Duane Arnold nuclear plant, with Google buying the power for its data centers.

Nearly all the electricity a data center uses becomes heat. How air and liquid cooling work, what PUE and WUE measure, and why water is the new constraint.