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The country's largest utility, NextEra Energy, has struck a deal with investment giant Brookfield to build a $100 billion data center campus in Kentucky. The Paducah site, which previously housed a Cold War-era uranium enrichment facility, will be overhauled to include a 2-gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant and up to 2.6 gigawatts of battery storage capacity — enough to power nearly 2 million homes. The investment is one of the largest in Kentucky's history; it's expected to create 8,000 construction jobs and 600 permanent ones, according to the U.S. Energy Department.

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