President Trump’s vision of American energy dominance is rapidly taking shape, promising a future of abundant, affordable power that fuels innovation while shielding everyday consumers from skyrocketing bills. By unleashing domestic production in oil, natural gas, and nuclear, Trump is reversing the Biden-era policiesthat stifled supply and drove up costs. This shift couldn’t come at a better time, as the explosive growth of AI data centers demands massive amounts of electricity.
A prime example is Meta’s recent nuclear power agreements, announced in January 2026, with Constellation Energy, Vistra, Oklo, and TerraPower. These deals secure gigawatts of reliable, baseload power for Meta’s AI operations, including restarts of existing reactors and deployments of small modular reactors (SMRs) by the early 2030s. Unlike intermittent wind and solar, nuclear provides the necessary 24/7 energy, aligning well with Trump’s strategy.
In the last two years alone, data center giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have inked at least seven similar nuclear pacts, such as Microsoft’s revival of Three Mile Island. These initiatives bolster U.S. technological dominance and demonstrate how private investment can expand capacity without taxpayer subsidies.
Yet the renewable energy lobby is quick to scapegoat AI data centers for rising rates, deflecting from the real culprit: overreliance on part-time wind and solar, and closing dispatchable capacity with regulations leaving us short of electricity. Wherever wind and solar have scaled massively, California, Germany, and the United Kingdom electricity prices have doubled or tripled compared to regions that have not.
Biden’s premature closures of coal plants, often before their useful life ended, forced utilities to replace full-time power with unreliable and heavily subsidized alternatives, leading to grid instability and higher costs.
Powering AI Without Burdening Americans
by Thinklike A. Mountain
19 hours ago
A prime example is Meta’s recent nuclear power agreements, announced in January 2026, with Constellation Energy, Vistra, Oklo, and TerraPower. These deals secure gigawatts of reliable, baseload power for Meta’s AI operations, including restarts of existing reactors and deployments of small modular reactors (SMRs) by the early 2030s. Unlike intermittent wind and solar, nuclear provides the necessary 24/7 energy, aligning well with Trump’s strategy.
In the last two years alone, data center giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have inked at least seven similar nuclear pacts, such as Microsoft’s revival of Three Mile Island. These initiatives bolster U.S. technological dominance and demonstrate how private investment can expand capacity without taxpayer subsidies.
Yet the renewable energy lobby is quick to scapegoat AI data centers for rising rates, deflecting from the real culprit: overreliance on part-time wind and solar, and closing dispatchable capacity with regulations leaving us short of electricity. Wherever wind and solar have scaled massively, California, Germany, and the United Kingdom electricity prices have doubled or tripled compared to regions that have not.
Biden’s premature closures of coal plants, often before their useful life ended, forced utilities to replace full-time power with unreliable and heavily subsidized alternatives, leading to grid instability and higher costs.
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