Acting Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, U.S. Department of Energy
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Leading Oak Ridge AI data center initiative
Alphabet just paid $4.75 billion for a power company. Not a tech company that happens to use power—an actual infrastructure firm that builds solar farms and data centers. The deal gives Google control over 10.8 gigawatts of generating capacity, enough to power 8 million homes. Tech giants spent 2024 locking down nuclear reactors, buying stakes in power plants, and signing multi-billion dollar energy deals because the AI boom hit a hard limit: there's not enough electricity. By December 2025, the federal government joined the race—the Department of Energy opened federal land at Oak Ridge for nuclear-powered AI data centers, while advanced nuclear startups raised over $500 million in a single week.
Updated Dec 29, 2025
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