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The Government Gave Four Companies Until July 4, 2026 to Get a Nuclear Reactor Critical. All Four Made It — Because Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta Already Needed the Power.
The Department of Energy gave four companies until July 4, 2026 to get a nuclear microreactor to criticality. All four made it -- because Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta had already signed real, dated nuclear power deals for their own data centers.
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Nvidia Made $62.3 Billion in a Single Quarter Selling Chips for Data Centers. Virginia, Home to More of Them Than Anywhere on Earth, Just Considered 61 Bills to Restrict Them.
Loudoun County, Virginia is "Data Center Alley" -- the highest concentration of data centers on the planet. In 2026, the same state ran 6...
The Same Ohio Land That Enriched Uranium for the Cold War Is Becoming a 10-Gigawatt AI Data Center — While Cleanup From the Last Use Is Still Underway.
The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant enriched uranium for the Cold War nuclear arsenal from 1954 until 2001. Cleanup is still underway ...
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