American Buildout

Plant owner just signed a power purchase deal with Walmart UPDATE, 1:43 p.m. ET: A spokesman for Constellation provided the following statement: "Dresden operators shut down Unit 2 Thursday morning to investigate an instrumentation issue. Technicians will

The Trump Administration is demanding a federal judge either let it jump into a lawsuit by the NAACP against Elon Musk's AI company over a South Memphis data center, or put the case on hold so it can appeal any exclusion to higher courts. In a motion to U

We looked at nearly 100 communities across more than 30 states that have moved to pause data-center development. Their moratoria tell a strikingly consistent story. Across the country, local governments have spent the past year reaching for the same instr

Ionic Digital is leasing one of its West Texas sites to an AI infrastructure operator because the most valuable part of the bitcoin mine is not the building or the mining machines. It is the electricity. The site is already tied to the grid, equipped for

Hyperscale Data has ended all Bitcoin mining at its Michigan data center and started converting the site into artificial intelligence computing capacity for a contracted customer, the company said September 2. The Las Vegas-based company, which trades on

Big Tech companies have looked to Texas as an oasis for their data centers. Texans are saying it might be a mirage, that the water supply might not be able to handle them, and they are talking about it publicly. Yesterday, the Texas Senate Committee on Wa

Over a full day of testimony Monday, North Dakota lawmakers heard two competing descriptions of the data center boom moving across the state. To James Dickey, a Texas consultant and publisher of Hyperscale News, a data center is fundamentally "an industri

The company is selling investors a gas-to-nuclear bridge. In Louisiana, it has put the gas end of that bridge under contract. ONE Nuclear Energy has told Wall Street it is building a bridge: natural gas now, nuclear later. For its biggest project yet, it

The advanced-nuclear developer calls the project nationally important-but redacts the customer, location and facts that would explain why. Oklo Inc. has asked federal regulators to rescue a 750-megawatt power project that PJM Interconnection removed from

What is Oklo? Oklo is a publicly traded advanced-nuclear company trying to do more than sell reactor designs. It plans to build, own and operate small power plants it calls Aurora "powerhouses," then sell electricity and heat directly to customers under l