Fermi America, in partnership with the Texas Tech University System, says it has two letters of intent with Siemens Energy, one to secure delivery for 2026 of three F-class SGT6-5000F gas turbines and the second to collaborate on nuclear steam turbine technologies. Both are said to be “in support of Fermi’s 11 GW AI campus”, proposed for Texas.
The campus is envisioned as a “flagship example of the Trump administration’s strategy”, says Fermi: pairing advanced, reliable, quickly-deployable natural gas generation with nuclear power and modern infrastructure to ensure the US can safely meet America’s growing energy demand — particularly from AI and high-performance computing. With the new agreements, Fermi’s gas generation equipment secured or under LOI to date now totals 2.0 GW of combined cycle power scheduled for 2026 delivery.
“No one understands the global energy race better than Donald Trump,” claims former US Secretary of Energy and Fermi Co-Founder Rick Perry.
Fermi Energy’s nuclear ambitions include the deployment of four Westinghouse AP1000 reactors and the collaboration with Siemens Energy is focused on integrating that company’s steam turbine technology, generators and control systems into these units. Fermi notes that Siemens Energy has been involved with “several modernisations of turbines and generators at multiple nuclear plants.”
Fermi says its nuclear plans align with the Trump administration’s executive orders to accelerate advanced nuclear deployment, streamline nuclear regulation, and ensure that the US infrastructure needed for AI and data centres has “the clean, reliable, always-on power that only nuclear and strategic redundancies can provide, without unnecessarily putting a strain on the public grid.”
