Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\nGoogle signed off on a 25-year agreement to purchase power from the facility once it is restarted. Photo \/ 123rf<\/p>\n
Google has unveiled a plan to restart a nuclear facility in Iowa to power the company\u2019s artificial intelligence infrastructure, in the latest collaboration between tech giants and electric industry players.<\/p>\n
\n Under an announcement with electric power company NextEra Energy, the Duane Arnold Energy Center, which shuttered in 2020, would return
\n to service in 2029 \u201cto help power Google\u2019s growing cloud and AI [artificial intelligence] infrastructure in Iowa\u201d, the companies said in a joint press release.\n <\/p>\n
Google signed off on a 25-year agreement to purchase power from the facility once it is restarted. The plant will be 100% owned by NextEra, which struck a deal with minority owners to purchase the share in the plant it doesn\u2019t currently own, the companies said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the US enters a new era of innovation and opportunity driven by AI, this strategic collaboration aims to enable Google to grow its business needs responsibly,\u201d the press release, which praised nuclear energy as a carbon-free source of power, said.<\/p>\n
AI has emerged as a major source of energy demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 27 Oct, 2025 11:30 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[365,9556,5432,138,1744,49063,14037,11163,2734,367,2454,1702,9557,1088,700,111,139,603,69,2170,4885,10702,10112,67346,370,61,15142,11743,3040],"class_list":{"0":"post-105105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial","10":"tag-between","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-collaboration","13":"tag-companys","14":"tag-electric","15":"tag-facility","16":"tag-giants","17":"tag-google","18":"tag-industry","19":"tag-infrastructure","20":"tag-intelligence","21":"tag-iowa","22":"tag-latest","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-newzealand","25":"tag-nuclear","26":"tag-nz","27":"tag-plan","28":"tag-plant","29":"tag-players","30":"tag-power","31":"tag-restart","32":"tag-tech","33":"tag-to","34":"tag-unveiled","35":"tag-unveils","36":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}