The United States government has finalized an $80 billion agreement with Westinghouse Electric Co. to construct a new wave of nuclear reactors, in what officials describe as a pivotal step to meet the surging energy demands of artificial intelligence.
The partnership, reported by Bloomberg, also includes Brookfield Asset Management and Cameco Corp., a major Canadian uranium producer. The move is part of President Donald Trump’s broader initiative to scale up U.S. nuclear capacity, a cornerstone of his energy and technology agenda aimed at keeping pace with China’s rapid industrial expansion in the AI sector.
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The deal underscores the administration’s “White House Asset Management” strategy, a term popularized by market commentators to describe the government’s increasingly active role in channeling capital toward strategic industries like AI, energy, and defense.
Under the agreement, each two-unit Westinghouse AP1000 reactor project will support or create 45,000 manufacturing and engineering jobs across 43 U.S. states. National deployment is expected to generate over 100,000 construction jobs, according to the companies.
Energy analysts say this initiative could cement the U.S. as a global nuclear leader while bolstering Westinghouse’s technological dominance in next-generation clean energy solutions. As AI infrastructure continues to strain national power grids, the nuclear sector is being reimagined as the backbone of America’s future, clean, scalable, and strategically independent.
Officials emphasized that this program aligns with President Trump’s AI-driven industrial policy, designed to ensure the U.S. remains competitive in critical technologies while reducing reliance on foreign energy sources.
“The program will cement the United States as one of the world’s nuclear energy powerhouses,” the joint statement said, “and expand Westinghouse’s next-generation nuclear technology globally.”