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Alphabet signs with Constellation Energy the purchase of 890 MW for two decades for its data centers. The operation adds power equivalent to a new reactor without building any plant. Google has signed a check for 4.3 billion dollars so that its AI has a plug for the next 20 years. It is not a hallway rumor: the signature with Constellation Energy is already stamped. The agreement adds 890 MW of new nuclear capacity to the grid of PJM Interconnection, the largest electric operator in the United States, as Bloomberg advanced and the energy company itself later confirmed. Translated into human language: almost 900 MW, the equivalent of a large reactor, but without opening a single construction file. Here is the trick that is actually a virtue. Constellation is going to invest more than 4.3 billion dollars in modernizing a long dozen of its nuclear units spread across Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. New equipment, better thermal and electrical efficiency, more watts coming out of the cable. The plant already exists; you just have to tighten the nuts. And why does nobody build a power plant from scratch? Because it is extremely expensive and eternal. The Wall Street Journal tells it with a small mouth: nuclear has become the perfect alibi for data centers, which already consume like medium-sized cities. The fast track is to squeeze what already works. Nut by nut. The...
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The alliance is called AI for Energy and consists of Constellation using Google Cloud and Gemini Enterprise to optimize maintenance, choose locations, and monitor its critical assets.
