The Tennessee Valley Authority is purchasing power from an Oak Ridge nuclear plant that will provide energy to Google data centers in Tennessee and Alabama.

The Tennessee Valley Authority agreed to buy electricity from a small nuclear power plant that’s expected to go into service in 2030 and will help power data centers owned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google.

“Energy security is national security, and electricity is the strategic commodity that is the building block for AI and our nation’s economic prosperity,” Moul said in a statement released to Knox Ne...