NextEra Energy and Brookfield plan to invest over $100 billion transforming a shuttered Cold War uranium-enrichment facility in Kentucky into a major data center campus. The project represents a significant investment in data infrastructure using repurposed industrial real estate.
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NextEra Energy Inc., the largest US power utility, is teaming up with Brookfield on a more than $100 billion transformation of a shuttered Cold War uranium-enrichment facility in Kentucky into a data center campus with a generating plant.
NextEra, Brookfield plan $100 billion Kentucky data center campus Reuters
Brookfield and NextEra Energy plan to develop a privately funded $100 billion artificial intelligence data-center campus at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Paducah Site in western Kentucky, a former uranium-enrichment facility [energynow.com#1][powermag.com#1][slashdot.org#1][ft.com#1][globo.com#1][nytimes.com#1]. Brookfield would lease land from DOE and develop and operate the campus, while NextE
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