New Nuclear Company Plans Faster, Cheaper Power Plants for Data Centers

Blue Energy, a startup backed by $380 million in funding, is building a nuclear power plant in Texas designed to power data centers. Instead of building reactors on-site—a process that takes a decade—the company manufactures components in shipyards and assembles them on location, aiming to cut costs in half and finish in two years. Worth flagging: these targets are unproven at scale. If successful, this approach could make nuclear power available much faster for the electricity-hungry boom in artificial intelligence and cloud computing.