Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently signed the Clean & Reliable Grid Affordability Act, which seeks to make energy more affordable, including the incentivizing of battery storage and kick-starting nuclear power and renewable energy development in the state.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announced that Elon Musk’s company, xAI, is investing over $20 billion in his state to build a new data center and power plant in Southaven. The center represents the largest single investment in the state’s history, Reeves said.
Days before he is set to leave office, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law to codify the state’s innovation office. The measure establishes the New Jersey Innovation Authority, which codifies the New Jersey State Office of Innovation (OOI) within the state’s Treasury Department.
North Carolina remains the only state without an enacted fiscal budget, and could remain without one until at least April. The impasse on passage stems from legislative disagreements on whether to delay scheduled income tax cuts, among other issues. In the absence of a new budget, North Carolina continues to operate on funding levels set in the most recently approved spending plan, but not all funding automatically rolls over.
Meta will become one of the largest corporate buyers of nuclear power in the U.S., striking major deals with Bill Gates–backed TerraPower (Wyoming) and existing nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania to fuel its rapidly expanding AI infrastructure.