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Oklo stock jumps after Microsoft, Nvidia join $200M nuclear AI initiative
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23 July 2026
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Fusion42 · 23 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Microsoft and Nvidia are joining a $200M Trump administration-backed programme to accelerate nuclear reactor deployment for AI data centre power. Oklo and X-Energy, advanced nuclear developers, are expected participants; the initiative aims to streamline design, licensing and construction whilst reducing costs and regulatory timelines.
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◆ The Wire takeaway
If you sell power equipment, cooling systems, or grid interconnect hardware to data centre operators, you just got two of the largest tech companies committing to nuclear as their baseline supply - and a government programme to cut the red tape that made it impossible before. The infrastructure bill is now written.
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AI Infrastructure · Clean Energy · nuclear-energy · ai-infrastructure · power-supply · regulatory-acceleration · data-centres