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newrecordreported July 1, 2026 Orangeville event: Valar and NVIDIA announce they are exploring a 30 MW nuclear-powered data center
Deseret News (Eva Terry, July 1, 2026) reported an event at Valar's Orangeville site with Taylor, an NVIDIA energy-policy director, Utah energy office director Emy Lesofski and State Sen. David Hinkins, where the companies said they are exploring a 30 megawatt data center fully powered by Valar's reactors. The article says Ward 250 was 'now generating 100 kilowatts of electricity'; that wording cannot match the 100 kW thermal limit in Valar's safety agreement (orig-034): a reactor limited to 100 kW of heat cannot deliver 100 kW of electricity, because turning heat into electricity always loses part of it. The figure is most likely the thermal rating reported as electric. The article quoted no independent expert or critic.
In plain termsOn July 1, 2026 at the Emery County site, Valar and NVIDIA said they are exploring a 30-megawatt data center run on Valar reactors. The newspaper's '100 kilowatts of electricity' cannot be right for a reactor limited to 100 kilowatts of heat, because only part of the heat can become electricity.
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