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Rolls-Royce CEO signals imminent nuclear power deal with major hyperscaler
Rolls-Royce CEO announced that a major cloud hyperscaler (likely Amazon, Google, or Microsoft) is near close on a nuclear power deal. The company is riding two investment tailwinds: defense spending and AI infrastructure demand, which is driving record power consumption at data centers.
WHY IT MATTERS
Signals hyperscalers now viewing nuclear as critical infrastructure to meet AI training/inference power budgets; implies data-center operators will move beyond traditional grid and directly negotiate with power utilities, reshaping capex priorities.
Source: CNBC · 2026-07-30