BTM is the largest single deployment channel for hyperscaler capex. Post 074 tightens the pair: the 35B platform makes BTM power and AI compute a single investment category. The customer increasingly wants to own the power plant, or at least its output, for 20 years.
The signals around the crisis that started this story are shifting. A possible deal on the Strait of Hormuz has moved oil. But the AI buildout hasn't waited to see how it resolves. It has detached from the public systems that used to govern it and is assembling a power system of its own.
X-energy priced its IPO on April 23 at $23 per share - above the $16-19 marketed range - raising $1.02 billion. The 44.25M-share offering was upsized; shares began trading on Nasdaq on April 24 under ticker XE and closed up 31%, implying a $12B market cap. Largest nuclear IPO on record.
Williams Companies announced Project NEO at its Q1 2026 earnings on May 5 - a 682 MW behind-the-meter gas plus battery storage facility targeted for service in H2 2028. NEO is Williams' fifth and largest commercialized Power Innovation project, part of a $9.6B portfolio under execution plus $6B in backlog.
Chevron's Energy Forge One subsidiary applied in mid-May for a $227 million property-tax break under Texas's JETI program for the Pecos behind-the-meter gas plant supplying a Microsoft AI data center. The facility's environmental impact assessment discloses up to 11 million tons of CO2 per year - one of the largest single-site industrial emitters in the region.
Meta's Hyperion data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana is expanding from 3 to 10 natural gas plants, totaling more than 7 GW. Entergy will build the 7 additional plants (5.2 GW); Meta pays its full cost of service. Total Hyperion project cost projected above $200 billion.
The AI power buildout has moved from forecast to order book. The richest companies in the world are prepared to spend almost without limit. They have discovered that money cannot manufacture time.
BTM is the largest single deployment channel for hyperscaler capex. Post 074 tightens the pair: the 35B platform makes BTM power and AI compute a single investment category. The customer increasingly wants to own the power plant, or at least its output, for 20 years.
The signals around the crisis that started this story are shifting. A possible deal on the Strait of Hormuz has moved oil. But the AI buildout hasn't waited to see how it resolves. It has detached from the public systems that used to govern it and is assembling a power system of its own.
X-energy priced its IPO on April 23 at $23 per share - above the $16-19 marketed range - raising $1.02 billion. The 44.25M-share offering was upsized; shares began trading on Nasdaq on April 24 under ticker XE and closed up 31%, implying a $12B market cap. Largest nuclear IPO on record.
Williams Companies announced Project NEO at its Q1 2026 earnings on May 5 - a 682 MW behind-the-meter gas plus battery storage facility targeted for service in H2 2028. NEO is Williams' fifth and largest commercialized Power Innovation project, part of a $9.6B portfolio under execution plus $6B in backlog.
Chevron's Energy Forge One subsidiary applied in mid-May for a $227 million property-tax break under Texas's JETI program for the Pecos behind-the-meter gas plant supplying a Microsoft AI data center. The facility's environmental impact assessment discloses up to 11 million tons of CO2 per year - one of the largest single-site industrial emitters in the region.
Meta's Hyperion data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana is expanding from 3 to 10 natural gas plants, totaling more than 7 GW. Entergy will build the 7 additional plants (5.2 GW); Meta pays its full cost of service. Total Hyperion project cost projected above $200 billion.
The AI power buildout has moved from forecast to order book. The richest companies in the world are prepared to spend almost without limit. They have discovered that money cannot manufacture time.