Executive Summary POWER’s inaugural Data Center POWER eXchange (DPX)  Summit convened utilities, hyperscalers, regulators, financiers, and developers to address the accelerating collision between data center demand growth and grid capacity. AI-driven load expansion is materially outpacing grid planning, permitting, and build-out timelines—raising reliability, cost, and political risks. Former federal energy regulators and utility CEOs highlighted a dual challenge: maintaining

There is a habit, common in fast-moving industries, of mistaking the most visible problem for the most important one. In artificial intelligence, that habit has taken the form of an obsession with chips. We speak of shortages, races, allocations, and breakthroughs, as if the future of AI were decided solely by silicon. It is not. Artificial intelligence does not ultimately run on chips. It runs on power, land, and permission. And those are in far shorter supply. A recent anal

Executive Summary AI compute demand is growing faster than the U.S. grid can supply; traditional renewables alone cannot meet 24/7 load requirements. Nuclear—large-scale fleets, SMRs, and long-duration baseload PPAs—is re-emerging as a critical enabler of hyperscale data-center reliability. The overlooked story: nuclear is not just a clean-energy asset; it is a long-duration capital instrument , allowing operators to lock in stable, predictable economics for decades. Transmis