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- AI power demand fuels US nuclear uprate wave as Constellation, Vistra expand
Surging electricity demand from AI data centers is driving a wave of "power uprates" at US nuclear plants. Constellation plans to spend more than $4.3 billion upgrading 11 existing reactors at six plants, adding nearly 1 GW of capacity, with Google agreeing to a 20-year power purchase agreement for the output. The US Department of Energy, meanwhile, announced a $4.2 billion loan to Vistra to support upgrades at three plants in Pennsylvania and Ohio adding 433 MW, backed by a long-term PPA with Meta. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission expects uprate applications totaling 2.4 GW of added capacity by 2032, while grid operator PJM estimates AI alone will add roughly 30 GW of peak demand by 2030.
MIT科技评论中文 · 🔥 10 - US Energy Dept. announces $100B AI data center campus on former Kentucky uranium site
The US Department of Energy announced a $100 billion private investment plan to convert a Cold War-era uranium enrichment site in western Kentucky into a large AI and high-performance computing campus. According to Sina Finance, Brookfield Asset Management will build a 1.8 GW data center campus, while NextEra Energy will develop 2 GW of natural gas generation plus 2.6 GW of battery storage alongside it. Construction is planned in phases through 2032 and is expected to create roughly 8,000 construction jobs and 600 permanent operating jobs, though financing costs, power supply and permitting are cited as the sector's main constraints.
36氪快讯 · 🔥 0 - Biohub partners with NIH, DOE in $1.8B push for AI-powered biology
Biohub, the philanthropic effort of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, announced a partnership with the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy in a $1.8 billion investment to build technologies and scientific infrastructure for "AI-powered biology." Biohub, which launched its Virtual Biology Initiative in April with a $500 million commitment, said Meta, Google DeepMind and DeepMind spin-off Isomorphic Labs have agreed to contribute $300 million. Zuckerberg said AI and other advances mean the goal of curing and preventing all diseases by the end of the century "no longer seems quite so crazy," while Chan Zuckerberg Initiative president Lori Goler said they hope the effort matches the Human Genome Project's impact; the article also notes Anthropic is providing $150 million in AI credits for the government's Genesis Mission.
The Information · 🔥 0 - Nvidia commits $1B over five years to US science, AI and quantum research
Nvidia announced at its Science: A New Golden Age event in Washington, D.C. that it will commit $1 billion over five years to support US research spanning quantum computing, fusion energy, accelerator design and microelectronics, plus university research, US quantum capabilities and cloud providers supplying compute for government missions. The company linked the commitment to the Trump administration's Genesis Mission and said it will collaborate on several Phase 2 projects under it. Nvidia has not provided a detailed breakdown of how the $1 billion will be distributed across its research priorities.
TechRepublic · 🔥 0 - Musk builds chips, Zuckerberg farms cells as AI races for new means of production
The piece argues the AI race is shifting from hoarding GPUs to controlling two physical inputs: chip fabrication and biological experimental data. Musk's SpaceX and Tesla announced in August a Texas "Terafab" chip manufacturing base with $16.8 billion in first-phase investment, while Zuckerberg-backed Biohub joined an approximately $1.8 billion virtual biology initiative announced on Oct. 7 that aims to turn labs into pipelines that continuously generate training data. It also cites Anthropic's Bay Area wet lab, where Claude proposes experiments, and Danaher's plan to run its first AI autonomous research lab at scale by early 2027.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0 - Nvidia pledges $1B over five years to US science under Genesis Mission
At a "Science: A New Golden Age" event in Washington, DC, Nvidia said it will commit $1 billion over the next five years to US science, supporting university research, US quantum computing and cloud providers that serve government needs — without saying how the money splits among them. The company described itself as a leading industry partner in the Energy Department-led Genesis Mission and said it is collaborating on Phase 2 awards spanning quantum computing, fusion, accelerator design and microelectronics. Nvidia added that it has worked with US national labs for more than two decades, including building the department's largest supercomputer for scientific research at Argonne National Laboratory and supporting seven new systems at Argonne and Los Alamos.
The Next Web · 🔥 0 - Biohub, Meta, Google DeepMind and US agencies pool $1.8B for open AI biology data
Biohub, the nonprofit backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a roughly $1.8 billion effort to build open biology datasets for training AI models that predict cell behavior. Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are contributing $300 million combined, the US Department of Energy is putting in more than $500 million over five years for measurement, modelling and compute, and the NIH is supplying datasets built with over $500 million in earlier federal funding. Biohub says commercial funders get one year of exclusive access before the data goes public, government-funded work carries no such restriction, and a first dataset is expected in about a year, with accurate predictive models targeted within five years.
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