Thursday, October 30, 2025

Google to revive shuttered nuclear power plant in Iowa that closed in 2020

Amazing stuff!

While in good old, but foolish Germany nuclear power plants are shut down and demolished in a fit of climate madness!

"Google announced this week it is working with NextEra Energy to revive a nuclear power plant in Iowa that had closed in 2020.

NextEra has been looking for a partner to reopen the reactor for the past year, and it found one in Google, which has been steadily adding zero-carbon energy sources to power its growing data center fleet. ..."

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  • Duane Arnold Energy Center restart to strengthen American energy grid resilience; Iowa’s only nuclear facility is targeted to be fully operational by the first quarter of 2029
  • Project expected to create approximately 400 direct, high-quality full-time jobs and deliver more than $9 billion in economic benefits to Iowa
  • Google and NextEra Energy sign a 25-year agreement for Duane Arnold’s energy, as well as an agreement to explore deployment of nuclear generation nationwide
..."

Google to bring shuttered nuclear power plant back from the dead | TechCrunch



Duane Arnold Energy Center


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