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Brookfield, NextEra to Develop $100B Data Center Campus at DOE’s Paducah Site, Paired With 4.6 GW of Dedicated Generation
['Sonal C. Patel']
POWER Magazine
Under the arrangement, Brookfield will lease land from the DOE and develop and operate the data center campus.
Those include Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, Unleashing American Energy, and Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure.
DOE in its RFO also explicitly invited proposals integrating “innovative energy generation and storage technologies with the AI infrastructure, particularly nuclear technologies including small modular reactors.”
NextEra Energy and Big Rivers Electric are among the pledge signatories.
The KPSC on Oct. 30, 2025, approved East Kentucky Power Cooperative’s Data Center Power (DCP) tariff in Case No.