U.S.-Japan Partnership Builds AI Data Center with Power Plant

0:00In Canada today, March 20th, the U.S. Department of Energy just announced a big public-private partnership to build a huge data center with its own power plant on the site of A-Asay. Close Uranium Enrichment Facility in Paikton, Ohio, they're calling it the Port's Technology Campus and it will feature a 10-gigawatt data center plus up to 10-gigawatts of new power generation, mostly from 9.2-gigawatts of natural gas. This project comes from a list of 16 federal sites, the Department opened last year for tech companies to develop AI data storage. Earlier this month, President Trump urged tech firms at the White House to build their own power alongside these energy-hungry sites. SoftBank Group, through its SB Energy Unit, is teaming up with AEPO-HIO on the power and transmission build-out, including $4.2 billion in grid upgrades that won't hide customer rates. Top officials like Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, and

1:00Interior Secretary Doug Burgham showed up in Paikton for the eye. Reveal, they highlighted how this will create thousands of jobs, boost power supply, and help America lead in the AI race while re-industrializing through. Massive energy projects. It's also linked to a U.S.-Japan trade deal with $33.3 billion in Japanese funding for the gas power part. SoftBank is working with open AI and Oracle on a broader AI infrastructure push called Stargate, potentially worth $500 billion, and this Ohio site fits right in. Construction kicks off this year, supporting research and fusion energy, quantum computing and national security with extra power feeding back to the regional grid to cut electricity costs.