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newrecordconfirmed NVIDIA: an announced study of a 30 MW data center, no signed terms on record; the demo ran at 37% of a 100 kW reactor
2026-07-01 · plan-010 · Valar Atomics, NVIDIA, Max Ukropina

At the 1 July 2026 event at the Orangeville site (orig-042), ETV reported that Valar's Max Ukropina and NVIDIA representatives 'discussed a collaboration to explore' nuclear-powered AI factories, including a proposed 30-megawatt facility in Emery County, and that the reactor was raised to 37% power to supply electricity to a server hosting a website. KSL/Deseret (6 July) wrote that the companies are 'exploring the deployment' of a 30 MW data center fully powered by their reactor. Valar's Series B post (4 August) calls it 'a collaboration on a waterless 30 MW AI factory'. No contract, memorandum or NVIDIA release was found: a search of nvidia.com returned nothing on Valar, and no filing names a Valar-NVIDIA agreement. In July Valar told the state economic board of 'a waterless data center in Orangeville' (gov-033); in June its public-affairs representative told Orangeville the reactor's energy has no set purchaser (loc-016). Scale: 30 MW is 300 times Ward 250's 100 kW heat rating, and more than that in electricity, since only part of the heat becomes electricity. No reactor Valar has built or had authorized could supply it; it would take a fleet or much larger reactors, which for sold power would need NRC licensing (csite-010, safe-030). If ETV's 37% is of the 100 kW rating, the demonstration ran at roughly 37 kW of heat, and ETV says the electricity came from a thermoelectric generator, which turns only part of the heat into electricity; KSL/Deseret's line that the reactor 'is now generating 100 kilowatts of electricity' (orig-042) fits neither figure.

In plain termsNVIDIA and Valar said they are studying a data center powered by Valar reactors. Nobody has published a signed deal. The demo was real but tiny: the reactor was turned to about a third of its small output to run one server. A 30-megawatt data center would need about 300 times more power than this test reactor makes, so it depends on reactors that do not exist yet and would need a federal license to sell power.
verified 2026-09-29: Verify pass 2026-09-29: ETV and KSL quotes re-read and hold; Valar's own Series B wording added. The 37 kW figure is now stated as conditional on the percentage being of the 100 kW rating. The nvidia.com search was not re-run in this pass (web-search budget spent); it stands from the earlier pass as 'none found'.

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