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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 today, even as the same land becomes a 10-gigawatt AI data center.
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The government picks winners two ways. Only one shows up in the record.
The CHIPS Act is a government finger on the market anyone can look up -- named recipients, filed with Congress. The CIA's venture arm, In...
Nevada Built an Entire City to House Hoover Dam's Workers in 1931. In 2014, It Gave Tesla $1.3 Billion to Build a Different Kind of Power Plant.
Nevada built an entire city from scratch in 1931 just to house Hoover Dam's workforce. In 2014, the state gave Tesla $1.3 billion to buil...
The Army Built Richland, Washington From a Town of a Few Hundred People in 1943. It Made the Plutonium for Nagasaki. The Cleanup Bill Is Now $578 Billion.
The Army built Richland, Washington from a town of a few hundred people in 1943 to produce the plutonium that went into the Nagasaki bomb...
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...
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