Brookfield Asset Management and NextEra Energy have unveiled plans for a $100 billion AI data center campus in western Kentucky. The project combines more than 1.2 GW of computing capacity with dedicated natural gas generation, battery storage, and existing transmission infrastructure, highlighting a growing trend toward co-locating AI infrastructure with purpose-built energy resources.

The House Energy & Commerce Committee has unanimously approved the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act (H.R. 9340), legislation intended to protect residential and small business electric customers by ensuring large-load facilities, including AI data centers, bear the costs of the infrastructure needed to serve them