{"id":37486,"date":"2025-07-25T23:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T23:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37486\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T23:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T23:50:08","slug":"paducah-facility-set-to-house-artificial-intelligence-related-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37486\/","title":{"rendered":"Paducah facility set to house artificial intelligence-related project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally built in 1952 to enrich uranium, the Kentucky plant is one of four sites selected by the Department of Energy for AI-related projects \u2014 including data centers and energy generation facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Paducah plant, along with the three other sites, are uniquely well-situated to host the AI projects \u2014 which he said will &#8220;bolster grid reliability, strengthen our national security, and reduce energy costs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mitch McConnell applauded the selection, saying he&#8217;s proud of the Paducah community and its workforce and expressed confidence in their ability to help &#8220;facilitate US leadership in AI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Solicitations for the projects are expected to be released in the coming months and partners could be selected by the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Originally built in 1952 to enrich uranium, the Kentucky plant is one of four sites selected by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-37486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}