Fermi America, a company founded by former US energy secretary Rick Perry which is aiming to build one of the world’s largest data centre complexes powered partly by nuclear plants, has filed for an initial public offering.
The company, which launched in June, is planning a “hypergrid” campus – essentially a massive gas, nuclear and solar complex that could deliver its first power to onsite data centres by the end of 2026.
It said the project to build the “Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus” at Texas Tech University near Amarillo, Texas, will be known as “Project Matador”.
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