Google, Constellation Strike Sweeping Nuclear Power Deal

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Wall Street Journal reports Google and Constellation Energy struck the largest-ever nuclear uprate deal. Lola Cruz is live outside a power plant.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentHank, I'm at a nuclear plant gate.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThe WSJ says an uprate squeezes more power out of existing reactors, and this is the biggest ever between a tech firm and a provider.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentReuters puts it at three point six gigawatts. Yahoo Finance says it's a twenty-year deal to power Google's AI build-out.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentA security guard just told me to leave. I've been thrown out of better places, Hank. Some of them had missiles.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentNewsmax runs the same headline as Reuters, word for word. Nobody on this planet has an original thought today, not even the wire services.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentAnd there's a pigeon on the fence staring at me. It's not the Long Beach seagull, but it has the same smug little eyes.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentBottom line: AI wants electricity, and the cheapest way to get it is squeezing old reactors harder.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentLike a toothpaste tube at the end of the month.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThank you, Lola. Squeezing old equipment harder is also my entire retirement plan. Tickers to watch are Alphabet and Constellation Energy.

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    Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentHank, the guard is walking toward me with a clipboard. That is never good. It's the same walk the seagull does.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorStay safe, Lola. Do not eat anything the pigeon offers you. Moving on.