🗞️ Story file #146
Google and Constellation energy finalize 3.6-GW nuclear power agreement
Oct 6, 12 PM ET to Oct 7, 8 PM ET
- 8outlets carried it
- 🫏2 · 4 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 1.3 dayson the front pages
- 7front pages at once, at its peak
- 5 minof TV captions
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 6, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: CNBC
- Oct 6, 6 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
- Oct 6, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (Newsmax)
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- CNBC (2 wordings): “Google squeezes more power from existing nuclear plants in Constellation deal. These stocks benefit” → “Google squeezes more power from existing nuclear plants in Constellation deal”
- Chicago Tribune (2 wordings): “Constellation and Google announce plan to increase nuclear capacity in Illinois, two other states” → “Constellation and Google announce plan to increase nuclear capacity in Illinois, tout cost savings for residents”
Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating
Axios
Google and Constellation Energy sign latest nuclear energy deal Oct 6, 6 PM ET
CNBC
Google squeezes more power from existing nuclear plants in Constellation deal. These stocks benefit Oct 6, 12 PM ET
Bloomberg
Google, Constellation Near Billion-Dollar Deal for Nuclear Power Oct 5, 10 PM ET
Chicago Tribune
Constellation and Google announce plan to increase nuclear capacity in Illinois, two other states Oct 6, 7 AM ET
MarketWatch
Google makes a fresh bet on nuclear power as the AI energy crunch intensifies Oct 6, 9 AM ET
Reuters
Google enters massive 3.6-GW power deal with Constellation Energy Oct 6, 9 AM ET
Newsmax
Google Enters Massive 3.6-GW Power Deal With Constellation Energy Oct 6, 9 AM ET
The Daily Caller
Google Vows To Cover Full Cost Of Boosting Three States’ Nuclear Plants To Power Its AI Growth Oct 7, 2 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- THE MOON IS GOING NUCLEAR Fox News, 69 s
- Google secures more power for data centres BBC News, 65 s
- NASA WON'T GIVE UP THE MOON Fox News, 54 s
- "POWER TOWER" COULD FUEL MOON BASE Fox News, 54 s
- NASA ADDS NEW ROCKET TO ARSENAL Fox News, 30 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: Google Constellation Energy Illinois
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.