The Trump administration is giving a Google-backed nuclear power plant a $1.9 billion loan.

It’s to finance the restart of an Iowa plant that’s been closed since 2020. Last year, Google announced a partnership with NextEra Energy to reopen the site to help power the company’s AI data centers. But you won’t see that tidbit in the Energy Department’s press release today. [Link: Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government | TechCrunch | https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/googles-revived-nuclear-power-plant-gets-1-9b-loan-from-us-government/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky | TechCrunch]