Financial Times report

“United States contributes 15.8 percent of NATO's annual civil and military budget of $3.5 billion”

“Between 80,000 and 100,000 American service personnel are stationed across Europe”

“The target date for presenting a framework is the NATO summit in The Hague on 24-25 June.”

“The five to ten year horizon reflects a realistic assessment of how long it takes to field new capabilities.”

“Brookfield and NextEra Energy are reportedly planning a $100 billion data centre and energy complex at a former uranium enrichment site in Kentucky”

“The project in Paducah, western Kentucky, will include 2 gigawatts of natural gas-fired generation and 2.6 gigawatts of battery storage.”

“The planned gas plants would have enough generating capacity to supply about 1.5 million homes.”

“The US Department of Energy has agreed to lease more than 3,500 acres at the government-owned site”

“The privately financed campus is expected to begin operating in phases from 2028 and be completed by early 2032.”

“The pledge, first announced in March this year, was initially signed by seven tech companies: Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI and Amazon.”

“It will now cover companies delivering 80% of all power to US homes and businesses”

“Electricity rates for 80% of the power distributed in America are now being kept in check by the plan.”

“more than a dozen states have considered moratoria on datacenters.”

“Google informed Meta in March that it wasn’t able to offer all the Gemini capacity that Facebook’s parent company wanted”