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Google announced on 18 August 2025 a power purchase agreement under which TVA will buy electricity from Kairos Power's Hermes 2 plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, enabling 50 MW on TVA's grid serving Google's data centers in Montgomery County, Tennessee and Jackson County, Alabama, with Google procuring the plant's clean energy attributes through TVA. Copy claim link
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Date 2025-08-18 · announcement Figure measures grid connection Stated dates (targets and terms, not events) target operation: 2030 Stage contracted Quantity exact · 50 megawatts (MW) Scope and limits Google's account of a three-party arrangement. Operations are scheduled for 2030, a target. Google buys clean energy attributes through TVA in this phase, not electricity directly.
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Our first advanced nuclear reactor project with Kairos Power and Tennessee Valley Authority ↗ Google (The Keyword blog) · 2025-08-18
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Source excerpt “TVA will purchase electricity from Kairos Power’s Hermes 2 plant, scheduled to begin operations in 2030” Location in source paragraph beginning “Here’s how it works: TVA will…”
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Source details and check notes Authors Google (The Keyword blog) Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 7634b5769981a523ac79f63e12afca51f4c037207e6061e0fc679ff27fce2a14). blog.google page as served on 2026-10-28; datePublished 2025-08-18 in page metadata. TVA's own release could not be retrieved (www.tva.com HTTP 403). Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 738c27cc5ad8b4c2489ecbb5e273658c998470405073ef0af43f4cf6756d2926). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Google (The Keyword blog), “Our first advanced nuclear reactor project with Kairos Power and Tennessee Valley Authority”, 2025-08-18. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (16 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 738c27cc5ad8b4c2489ecbb5e273658c998470405073ef0af43f4cf6756d2926; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 38) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Our first advanced nuclear reactor project with Kairos Power and Tennessee Valley Authority ↗ Google (The Keyword blog) · 2025-08-18
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Source excerpt “enable 50 megawatts (MW) of nuclear energy on TVA’s grid that powers our data centers” Location in source paragraph beginning “Today we announced the first deployment…”
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Source details and check notes Authors Google (The Keyword blog) Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 7634b5769981a523ac79f63e12afca51f4c037207e6061e0fc679ff27fce2a14). blog.google page as served on 2026-10-28; datePublished 2025-08-18 in page metadata. TVA's own release could not be retrieved (www.tva.com HTTP 403). Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 738c27cc5ad8b4c2489ecbb5e273658c998470405073ef0af43f4cf6756d2926). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Google (The Keyword blog), “Our first advanced nuclear reactor project with Kairos Power and Tennessee Valley Authority”, 2025-08-18. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (15 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 738c27cc5ad8b4c2489ecbb5e273658c998470405073ef0af43f4cf6756d2926; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 38) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Our first advanced nuclear reactor project with Kairos Power and Tennessee Valley Authority ↗ Google (The Keyword blog) · 2025-08-18
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Paraphrase the data centers named are in Montgomery County, Tennessee and Jackson County, Alabama.
Location in source paragraph beginning “Today we announced the first deployment…”
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Source details and check notes Authors Google (The Keyword blog) Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 7634b5769981a523ac79f63e12afca51f4c037207e6061e0fc679ff27fce2a14). blog.google page as served on 2026-10-28; datePublished 2025-08-18 in page metadata. TVA's own release could not be retrieved (www.tva.com HTTP 403). Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 738c27cc5ad8b4c2489ecbb5e273658c998470405073ef0af43f4cf6756d2926). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Google (The Keyword blog), “Our first advanced nuclear reactor project with Kairos Power and Tennessee Valley Authority”, 2025-08-18. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. The cross-family check found it faithful. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 38) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Our first advanced nuclear reactor project with Kairos Power and Tennessee Valley Authority ↗ Google (The Keyword blog) · 2025-08-18
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Source excerpt “we will procure clean energy attributes from the plant through TVA” Location in source paragraph beginning “Here’s how it works: TVA will…”
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-30
Source details and check notes Authors Google (The Keyword blog) Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 7634b5769981a523ac79f63e12afca51f4c037207e6061e0fc679ff27fce2a14). blog.google page as served on 2026-10-28; datePublished 2025-08-18 in page metadata. TVA's own release could not be retrieved (www.tva.com HTTP 403). Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 738c27cc5ad8b4c2489ecbb5e273658c998470405073ef0af43f4cf6756d2926). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Google (The Keyword blog), “Our first advanced nuclear reactor project with Kairos Power and Tennessee Valley Authority”, 2025-08-18. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (11 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 738c27cc5ad8b4c2489ecbb5e273658c998470405073ef0af43f4cf6756d2926; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 38) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. A stated agreement on electricity supply, a power purchase, a plant restart or the development of generation, at the stage the parties state. It is not delivery of power, and an agreement to explore is not a contract.
Date. Stated by Google; TVA's and Kairos's releases were not retrieved.
Record ID cpo-pw-tva-kairos-hermes2-ppa