Rosatom held preliminary discussions with US counterparts about supplying electricity from small reactors to AI data centers. The talks were publicly raised on October 16, 2026, in Moscow, and confirmed on October 29 by Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev. No contract, funding amount, project site, or timeline has been announced. Cooperation remains constrained by US sanctions and regulatory complexity, including the Graham Act cited by Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev. Russia already operates two 35 MW units commissioned in 2020 and has paired some data centers with nuclear power projects.
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