US closes $1.9bn loan to restart the Iowa nuclear plant powering Google
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A $1.9B federal loan to restart Duane Arnold—largely to feed Google’s 25-year cloud and AI power contract—confirms that hyperscale AI demand now underwrites nuclear restarts. If your AI roadmap assumes cheap, fungible grid power, start treating long-term energy procurement and policy relationships as core infrastructure, not a facilities problem.
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