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New York Is Building a New Advanced Nuclear Power Plant to Supply a Million New Homes... or One Artificial Intelligence Data Center


America is making nuclear great again... Soon, somewhere amid the apple orchards that edge Lake Ontario in New York will be the nation's first advanced nuclear-power facility. Today, Governor Kathy Hochul announced she has directed the New York Power Authority to identify a site in upstate New York to host a new nuclear plant capable […]

The other option embraces small modular reactors – cookie-cutter units forged in factories and shipped up the Thruway like oversized Lego bricks – an idea Ontario is already testing just over the border. Wind and solar alone cannot deliver that around the clock, and new natural gas plants run head-on into New York's strict emissions law. The bottom line is that America's return to nuclear greatness is well on its way – thanks to AI's endless energy appetite and a bipartisan realization that wind and solar aren't enough.

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