US Edition

Seven years after emerging from bankruptcy, Westinghouse Electric has secured an $80 billion US government contract to build 10 AP1000 nuclear reactors, backed by $17.5 billion in DOE loan facilities. The driving force is AI: data centers need firm baseload power that renewables can't reliably supply, and Westinghouse is also partnering with Google Cloud on an AI platform trained on 75 years of nuclear engineering data to make construction faster and cheaper.