NextEra, Brookfield plan $100 billion Kentucky data center campus

July 29 : NextEra Energy, Brookfield and other companies are developing a $100 billion data center campus at a former uranium enrichment site in Paducah, Kentucky, the companies said on Wednesday.Soaring U.S. electricity demand is pushing companies to invest heavily in artificial intelligence data centers and other technologies straining an aging U.S. electric grid.NextEra, the largest U.S. utility, would deliver 2 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power and 2.6 GW of battery storage capacity to support the data center, while Brookfield would own and operate the 1.8 GW campus, the companies said.One gigawatt can power about 750,000 homes. The campus would be located on the Department of Energy's Paducah Site, which was constructed in 1952 to produce enriched uranium but was later shuttered.Ne