July 29 (Reuters) - NextEra Energy ( NEE ), Brookfield

and other companies are developing a $100 billion data

center campus at a former uranium enrichment site in Paducah,

Kentucky, the companies said on Wednesday.

Soaring U.S. electricity demand is pushing companies to

invest heavily in artificial intelligence data centers and other

technologies straining an aging U.S. electric grid.

NextEra, the largest U.S. utility, would deliver 2 gigawatts

of natural gas-fired power and 2.6 GW of battery storage

capacity to support the data center, while Brookfield would own

and operate the 1.8 GW campus, the companies said.

One gigawatt can power about 750,000 homes.

The campus would be located on the Department of Energy's

Paducah Site, which was constructed in 1952 to produce enriched

uranium but was later shuttered.

NextEra said the project fulfills the Trump administration's

"Ratepayer Protection Pledge," which seeks to ensure that

companies building and using data centers pay above and beyond

normal rates so that costs are not passed on to average

households.

"The Department of Energy Paducah Site will be the seed of

our plan to invest $100 billion in AI infrastructure,"

Brookfield CEO Bruce Flatt said in a statement.

The project is expected to be completed by 2032.