The US Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has issued a request for offer (RFO) seeking proposals from US companies to build and power artificial intelligence (AI) data centres on a former uranium enrichment site in Kentucky.

Companies are being sought to potentially enter into one or more long-term leasing agreements at the Paducah site that would be solely funded by the applicants.

The DOE-EM is overseeing the remediation of the Paducah Site for beneficial reuse. The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant enriched uranium from 1952 to 2013 and was the last government-owned uranium enrichment facility operating in the US.