Nuclear microreactor developer Terra Innovatum has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent with IT services and consulting firm Uvation to launch a 1MWe pilot project.

The deal includes an option to scale the project up to 100MWe to meet Uvation’s growing AI and data center infrastructure demands. The project will see Terra deploy one of its microreactors at an Uvation site to provide behind-the-meter power to the company.

Commenting on the agreement, Alessandro Petruzzi, co-founder and CEO of Terra Innovatum, said: “Uvation’s data center expansion requires infrastructure that is not only scalable, but fundamentally resilient. By integrating Terra Innovatum’s SOLO micro-modular reactor, we will offer a behind-the-meter energy source capable of delivering safe, stable, high-density power that traditional grids cannot guarantee.

“This enables next-generation, high-performance modular data centers powered by a clean, uninterrupted energy backbone—unlocking new possibilities for AI, HPC, and mission-critical workloads.”

Terra Innovatum’s SOLO reactor is a 1MWe and 4MWth microreactor that, according to the company, can scale up to 1GW or more. First conceptualized in 2018 and developed over six years, the system supports both LEU+ and HALEU fuel and can provide electricity, heat, and other applications, including desalination, industrial process heat, and medical radioisotope production.

Uvation CEO Reen Singh said: “Global demand for AI, driven by the US, and the need for sovereign cloud infrastructure, is accelerating far faster than the available power to support it. Some of our off-takers forecast demand exceeding 1GW, yet current infrastructure and lack of readily available access to energy limit the scale of deployments. Power shortages have been major forces in this industry’s project delays. By integrating Terra Innovatum’s SOLO reactor into our future roadmap, we will look to secure immediate power along with a reliable, behind-the-meter energy source that enables scalable AI, inference, and edge deployments.”

Uvation is a technology services firm offering cloud, hosting, cybersurity, and network, and managed IT services. The company says it operates out of 40 facilities across 20 markets globally.

Several microreactor firms have signed deals with data center operators over recent years. Most notably, in August, US firm Radiant signed a deal with Equinix, which agreed to purchase 20 of its microreactors to power its US operations.

Before this, in February, Last Energy revealed plans to construct 30 microreactors in Texas to serve the US data center market. The reactors will be built on a 200-acre site in Haskell County, in southeast Texas.