Virginia has become the world’s leading data centre hub due to its proximity to the US capital, affordable land, tax incentives, abundant electricity and access to undersea cables that connect North America to Europe. The state is home to hundreds of these centres, with a total installed capacity of 6.2 gigawatts (GW) in the first half of 2025. Virginia’s electricity generation capacity is 29GW, almost half of which comes from gas-fired power plants.
‘What we want to do is we want to keep it [AI] in this country,’ Donald Trump declared in January 2025 as he announced the launch of Stargate, a $500bn private investment project that plans to fund a network of new data centres across the US. ‘China is a competitor and others are competitors.’ Trump acknowledged that these centres would need ‘a lot of electricity’, and suggested combining data centres with energy generation: ‘We’ll make it possible for them to get that production done very easily at their own plants if they want.’
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Why bother posting an article barely anyone can read? Ok, so the USA needs nuclear power….well, duh, of course they do. It’s the ultimate energy source. The problem is, the USA is nearly, completely, incapable of executing large infrastructure projects any more. Case in point, China now has 50,000KM of high speed rail, the USA has the singular, and rather not so fast, 700KM Acela corridor line. China is building, right now, 37 nuclear reactors across their country (in addition to installing more solar and wind than the rest of the world combined) —— USA is cancelling clean energy projects and has precisely 0 nuclear reactors under construction. It’s arguable, the skills to build a vast network of nuclear power generation across the United States no longer exists and is pure fantasy. ——no, all those nuclear powered subs don’t count, most are decades old.
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Virginia has become the world’s leading data centre hub due to its proximity to the US capital, affordable land, tax incentives, abundant electricity and access to undersea cables that connect North America to Europe. The state is home to hundreds of these centres, with a total installed capacity of 6.2 gigawatts (GW) in the first half of 2025. Virginia’s electricity generation capacity is 29GW, almost half of which comes from gas-fired power plants.
‘What we want to do is we want to keep it [AI] in this country,’ Donald Trump declared in January 2025 as he announced the launch of Stargate, a $500bn private investment project that plans to fund a network of new data centres across the US. ‘China is a competitor and others are competitors.’ Trump acknowledged that these centres would need ‘a lot of electricity’, and suggested combining data centres with energy generation: ‘We’ll make it possible for them to get that production done very easily at their own plants if they want.’
Why bother posting an article barely anyone can read? Ok, so the USA needs nuclear power….well, duh, of course they do. It’s the ultimate energy source. The problem is, the USA is nearly, completely, incapable of executing large infrastructure projects any more. Case in point, China now has 50,000KM of high speed rail, the USA has the singular, and rather not so fast, 700KM Acela corridor line. China is building, right now, 37 nuclear reactors across their country (in addition to installing more solar and wind than the rest of the world combined) —— USA is cancelling clean energy projects and has precisely 0 nuclear reactors under construction. It’s arguable, the skills to build a vast network of nuclear power generation across the United States no longer exists and is pure fantasy. ——no, all those nuclear powered subs don’t count, most are decades old.