Isaiah Taylor
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It already is being piloted in some data centers.
And that's where I think the natural evolution here is that you're going to have these what I call industrial power campuses.
At Valor, we call these gigasites.
A gigasite is essentially a place where we build many nuclear reactors.
We power data centers.
We power aluminum electrolysis.
We power advanced manufacturing.
We create chemical fuels.
There's a great amount of power, and that power begins to be sold outside of that very small industrial grid.
Well, large power, small footprint industrial grid, and we begin to serve communities outside of that.
I think it's going to be a natural evolution.
There needs to be regulatory change for that to happen.
Only a few states have figured this out and gotten ahead of the ball and drafted and passed legislation to make this legal.
Utah is one of them.
That's where our first nuclear project is in the United States.
What do you power in there?
I went on Bloomberg a couple weeks ago with the governor of Utah, and we announced together that we have the San Rafael Energy Research Center in Emory County, Utah, where we're going to be turning on our first test reactor.
so super exciting the goal is july 4th next year incredibly incredibly important important moment for the united states if we can hit that hit that date extremely excited about it we'll build more reactors there as well and i do think we'll power data centers there and beyond the data centers again there will be electrolysis there will be manufacturing and we'll see where it goes after that you know our our thought here is that
We need to begin building power for the most critical things.
And if we allow ourselves to deregulate and decentralize, the problem will sort of fix itself, right?