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Grid
Nearly all 94 US reactors were offered AI tools this year, and most accepted. The assistants search decades of records for a shrinking workforce, while humans keep every operating decision.
Energy & Cooling Desk
Power
Palisades, Crane and Duane Arnold are coming back from retirement with federal loans and big-tech buyers. Together they would add about 2.25 GW between 2027 and 2029.
Chips & Power Desk
Data centers
Microsoft dropped Nscale's 50 MW Loughton AI campus after the grid operator signaled power would not arrive until the 2030s. The wires were the bottleneck.
Chips & Power Desk