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US Military Escorting Oil and Gas Through Strait, Wright Says
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced that NextEra Energy and Brookfield are constructing a $100 billion data center campus to be powered by nuclear and gas infrastructure on federal lands, with the facility providing its own water supply. During the same remarks, Wright stated that gas price forecasts through Labor Day are not possible to predict. Bloomberg reported that Wright discussed energy prices in the context of the escalating Iran conflict.
