DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Critical Power, NextEra Energy
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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NextEra secures $1.9bn loan from US DOE to support restart of the Duane Arnold nuclear power plant in Linn County, Iowa
Plant tied to long-term PPA with Google
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NextEra secures $3.3bn in state funding for 10GW of new natural gas generation to meet growing data center power needs
Will support two projects in Texas and Pennsylvania
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Dominion Energy adds more than 5GW of contracted data center load to its pipeline
An 11 percent increase from the end of last year
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Brookfield to develop gigawatt-scale data center campus at DOE's Kentucky nuclear enrichment plant
NextEra to build natural gas and battery energy storage systems to support campus
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NextEra raises data center forecast to 8GW by 2032 at Florida subsidiary FPL
Acquires full ownership of the Duane Arnold nuclear power station
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Trump expands Ratepayer Protection Pledge with 200-plus new signatories
Including utility heavyweights Southern Company, PPL Corp, NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, and American Electric Power
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NextEra Energy to acquire Dominion Energy, creating world's largest regulated electrical utility
Collectively, the firms have more than 130GW of large-load opportunities in their pipeline, most tied to data centers
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NextEra gets federal approval to build 10GW of natural gas power in Texas and Pennsylvania for data centers
Tied to Japan's recent $550bn investment commitment to the US market
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US utilities Xcel Energy, NextEra ink MoU to support delivery of new generation to serve large-load customers
Will collaborate on generation, storage, and associated transmission investments
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NextEra Energy targets 15GW of new generation for data center hubs by 2035
Reported 20GW of interest from large load users in latest earnings call
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NextEra teams up with ExxonMobil to develop 1.2GW natural gas plant to power US data center sector
Increasingly turning to natural gas to power the sector
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NextEra Energy partners with Google to develop at least three gigawatt-scale data center campuses
Will see Google Cloud provide its AI services to NextEra
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Google signs power deal with NextEra Energy to restart Iowa's 615MW Duane Arnold nuclear plant for AI data centers
Expected to start delivering power by 2029