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Federal power corporation serving the Tennessee Valley, generating electricity from nuclear, coal, gas, and hydro plants for utilities and large customers.
Type One Energy's CEO says its new $200 million Series B gets the company halfway to paying for a 400 MW fusion plant at TVA's Bull Run. Grid planners and large power buyers now have a named utility site and a 2034 target to track.
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A SpaceXAI developer told the TVA board that Colossus 2 holds 3.3 GWh of storage, the Memphis utility's chief executive put it at 2,000 MW behind the meter, and the board approved a direct grid hookup the same day.
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Satellite imagery put roughly 2.8 GWh of Tesla Megapacks at xAI's Colossus 2 site, the largest grid battery in the country, and the roughly $1bn xAI and SpaceX have spent since 2024 averages near $500m a year.
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The Wisconsin utility put money into Realta Fusion and offered it somewhere to plug in, for a plant that would not run until the mid-2030s. That is a wager on how short of power the next decade gets.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority has pulled data centers out of its manufacturing rate class and attached capacity commitments to new load. Grid access is now a capex line, not a siting question.
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University of South Florida engineers demonstrated a submerged laser de-icer at two TVA nuclear sites. The target was basket-by-basket inspection labor, not generation capacity.
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The CEO's number equals 72 to 96 percent of TVA's current nuclear capacity, using a reactor with no operating commercial unit anywhere. Buyers now have to price that.
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