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Alphabet Will Pay to Boost Output at Two Georgia Nuclear Plants

Cierra Seay
Published Sep 21, 2026
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  • Alphabet Inc. will bankroll power-boosting upgrades at two Georgia nuclear stations.
  • The work is slated to add about 96 megawatts of additional capacity across the sites.
  • Google will cover the costs through a new tariff, pending regulatory approval.

What happened

Chasing more clean, always-on electricity for a world hungry for AI, Alphabet said Monday it will fund uprates at Georgia's Vogtle and Hatch nuclear plants. These projects, which can include swapping out mechanical equipment to safely increase a reactor's output, are expected to lift combined capacity by roughly 96 megawatts. Google, Alphabet's unit, will pay via a newly created tariff, and the plan still needs sign-off from regulators.

Who is involved and who pays

Georgia Power - a subsidiary of Southern Co. - is a co-owner of both facilities, and operations are handled by the parent company's Southern Nuclear unit. With data center demand surging, the question of who foots the bill for new power infrastructure is getting louder. According to Georgia Power, the deal involving Google is intended to protect residential and other industrial customers from bearing the costs of these upgrades.

The bigger trend

Tech's power appetite is pulling nuclear back into the spotlight. Nuclear's appeal here is straightforward: carbon-free electricity that runs around the clock. Expanding output at existing reactors typically takes far less time than building a new plant from scratch. We've seen this playbook before: last year, Constellation Energy Corp. reached a deal to deliver electricity from an Illinois nuclear facility to Meta Platforms Inc., while also investing in improvements to that plant's infrastructure.

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September 21, 2026
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  • For 109 years the Federal Reserve created money, lent it to the U.S. government and handed the interest it collected back to Washington - almost $1 trillion in the decade starting in 2011.
  • Pandemic-era lending locked the Fed into earning about 2% on trillions of dollars while it now pays banks around 4%, producing a record loss of hundreds of billions in 2026.
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