A Cold War uranium plant will become a $100 billion AI campus
The US Energy Department picked Brookfield and NextEra to convert the shuttered Paducah uranium-enrichment site in Kentucky into a 1.8-gigawatt AI data center campus, backed by roughly $100 billion in private investment. The plan includes 2 gigawatts of new gas-fired generation — the state's largest — plus 2.6 gigawatts of battery storage, with construction due to finish by 2031 and about 8,000 building jobs along the way.
Why it mattersThe US government is now handing Cold War nuclear sites directly to the AI buildout. And the choice of gas over clean energy shows how far AI's power hunger is outrunning renewables.
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