Texas-based HGP Intelligent Energy sent a proposal to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to repurpose two retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors for use in an AI data center project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, under data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/trump-administration-touts-genesis-mission-to-try-and-win-the-ai-race-white-house-compares-scope-of-its-initiative-to-the-manhattan-project” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/trump-administration-touts-genesis-mission-to-try-and-win-the-ai-race-white-house-compares-scope-of-its-initiative-to-the-manhattan-project”>President Donald Trump’s Genesis Mission. data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-24/nuclear-developer-proposes-using-navy-reactors-for-data-centers” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-24/nuclear-developer-proposes-using-navy-reactors-for-data-centers” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Bloomberg says that the company aims to use two old reactors to deliver 450 to 520 megawatts of power, but did not confirm where they would come from.
At the moment, the U.S. Navy uses Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors to power…
