John W. Ketchum

Built World

Leads the company selected to build and own the site's power

A Cold War uranium plant near Paducah, Kentucky enriched fuel for bombs and reactors, then sat idle after 2013. Now a coalition led by Brookfield and NextEra Energy plans to spend about $100 billion turning part of that federal land into one of the country's largest AI computing campuses.

Updated Jul 29

Built World

Leading utility-side buildout of AI-era data center power and nuclear extensions

Since late 2022, U.S. regulators and utilities have warned that AI-optimized data centers could reshape national power demand, ending an era of flat electricity consumption and forcing rapid buildout of generation and transmission. By early 2026, those warnings have crystallized into concrete challenges. PJM Interconnection's December 2025 capacity auction hit the $333.44/MW-day price cap and failed to meet reliability requirements for the first time in its history. Data centers accounted for $6.5 billion—or 40%—of the auction's $16.4 billion in costs.

Updated May 10