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🗞️ 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

👣 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.

  1. Oct 6, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: CNBC
  2. Oct 6, 6 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
  3. Oct 6, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 6, 6 PMOct 76 AM12 PM6 PM47leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 12 PM to Oct 7, 8 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 612 PMOct 712 PMBloombergBloombergBloomberg, Oct 5, 10:00 PM ET: Google, Constellation Near Billion-Dollar Deal for Nuclear PowerChicago TribuneChicago TribuneChicago Tribune, Oct 6, 7:00 AM ET: Constellation and Google announce plan to increase nuclear capacity in Illinois, two other statesChicago Tribune, Oct 6, 7:00 PM ET: Constellation and Google announce plan to increase nuclear capacity in Illinois, tout cost savings for residentsMarketWatchMarketWatchMarketWatch, Oct 6, 9:00 AM ET: Google makes a fresh bet on nuclear power as the AI energy crunch intensifiesReutersReutersReuters, Oct 6, 9:00 AM ET: Google enters massive 3.6-GW power deal with Constellation EnergyNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 6, 9:00 AM ET: Google Enters Massive 3.6-GW Power Deal With Constellation EnergyCNBCCNBCCNBC, Oct 6, 12:00 PM ET: Google squeezes more power from existing nuclear plants in Constellation deal. These stocks benefitCNBC, Oct 6, 12:00 PM ET: Google squeezes more power from existing nuclear plants in Constellation dealAxiosAxiosAxios, Oct 6, 6:00 PM ET: Google and Constellation Energy sign latest nuclear energy dealThe Daily CallerThe Daily CallerThe Daily Caller, Oct 7, 2:00 PM ET: Google Vows To Cover Full Cost Of Boosting Three States’ Nuclear Plants To Power Its AI Growth📺 TVFox News, 8:23 PM ET: NASA ADDS NEW ROCKET TO ARSENALFox News, 8:24 PM ET: NASA ADDS NEW ROCKET TO ARSENALFox News, 8:25 PM ET: NASA WON'T GIVE UP THE MOONFox News, 8:25 PM ET: THE MOON IS GOING NUCLEARFox News, 8:26 PM ET: NASA WON'T GIVE UP THE MOONFox News, 8:28 PM ET: "POWER TOWER" COULD FUEL MOON BASEFox News, 8:29 PM ET: "POWER TOWER" COULD FUEL MOON BASEBBC News, 9:35 PM ET: Google secures more power for data centresBBC News, 9:36 PM ET: Google secures more power for data centresFox News, 1:25 AM ET: THE MOON IS GOING NUCLEARFox News, 1:28 AM ET: "POWER TOWER" COULD FUEL MOON BASE
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 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

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News3 min
BBC News65 s
  • 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.