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January 12th, 2026   Donald Doge Editorial Note: The recommendation below is up since we first recommended it, and it continues to be in buy range. Below is the essay, first published in December with minor edits. There's a brewing problem in the modern world that almost no one is prepared for, except for the handful of people who understand the power system behind AI. The good news is the solution is real. The better news is that one company is sitting at the most valuable intersection of that solution and the crisis driving it. AI's growth curve is starting to look less like a trend line and more like an electrical event. NVIDIA's earnings didn't just beat expectations. They exposed a truth hiding in plain sight. We are building intelligence faster than we are building the power to run it. Across the country, tech companies are racing to build the next wave of data centers, not the server closets of the early cloud era, but industrial campuses of compute. Facilities so power‑hungry they draw the electricity of a 100,000‑home city, and we are adding them at a pace the grid was never designed to support. Globally, 500–700 new data centers come online every year, with about 200 of them classified as hyperscale, the heavyweight class required for AI. Each one is a new drain on a system already running hot. Utilities see it first. Georgia regulators recently admitted that 80% of the state's future power demand will come from data centers. Florida approved a massive multi‑year rate hike in part because AI‑driven load is forcing billions in grid upgrades. Virginia and North Carolina have started delaying new data‑center approvals because their substations are at capacity. Ireland froze new Dublin facilities after they hit 30% of the region's electricity consumption. Singapore paused new buildouts because local generation simply couldn't take another hit. These are hard limits. The kind that appears when physical infrastructure collides with exponential technology. Because AI doesn't behave like anything the grid was built for. It doesn't sleep. It doesn't idle. It doesn't wait for sunny afternoons or breezy evenings. It pulls power the way a trauma ward pulls power, continuously, urgently, without negotiation. And once you accept that, the whole energy conversation shifts. It stops being about ideology and starts being about physics. Something on the grid has to deliver constant, unbroken, industrial‑strength electricity so everything else, renewables, storage, peaker plants, the entire mix, can function around it. That's where the story turns. And that's where the opportunity begins. The United States Just Triggered the Largest Nuclear Buildout in 50 Years If the AI power crisis is the spark, what the United States did recently is the accelerant. And most investors missed it because it didn't come wrapped in a headline designed to go viral. In October, the U.S. committed to the largest nuclear expansion since the 1970s. A full-scale industrial partnership to rebuild America's nuclear capacity from the ground up. Eight AP1000 reactors. A new fleet of AP300 SMRs behind them. Long-term federal backing. Accelerated permitting. Supply chain commitments measured in decades, not the typical quarters Wall Street loves to price things in. For half a century, the United States let other countries, mostly Russia and China, dominate the global nuclear supply chain. They built the reactors. They controlled the fuel cycle. They wrote the contracts that last longer than most people's mortgages. Meanwhile, America argued over zoning permits and the endangered spotted owl. But that era just ended. The new Westinghouse partnership isn't a subsidy. It's a declaration that baseload matters again, that the grid can't survive on intermittent power alone, and that America is not willing to hand the future of AI, manufacturing, electrification, and national security to geopolitical rivals. And here's the part most people haven't processed yet: Every one of those reactors needs fuel. A lot of it. Before they ever produce a single watt. One AP1000 reactor requires roughly 1.2 million pounds of uranium just to start up. A fleet of eight? Roughly 10 million pounds. The equivalent of nearly 10% of global annual mine supply consumed before the first refueling cycle even begins. And the AP300 SMRs? They add even more sustained demand. SMRs consume uranium on predictable schedules, decades into the future. This is where the energy story becomes the investment story. Not because uranium is "hot" or because nuclear is "back," but because the United States just transformed itself from a passive observer into the single most important future buyer of nuclear fuel on Earth. And once you see that clearly, the uranium squeeze becomes impossible to ignore. 🚀 Get Moonshot Alerts Instantly Markets move in minutes. Your inbox can't keep up. Join the Moonshot VIP Text Service and get real-time alerts, portfolio updates, and first-move intelligence directly to your phone. Be first to know. Anywhere. 👉 [Join the Text List →] The Global Uranium Squeeze If the previous section showed the scale of what the United States just set in motion, this section shows the collision it's about to have with the rest of the world. Because America didn't commit to eight AP1000s and a fleet of SMRs in a vacuum. It stepped into a global uranium market that was already running a deficit before this buildout even existed. And once you understand the numbers, the picture sharpens fast. For eight straight years, according to the World Nuclear Association, reactor demand has exceeded global mine supply. Not by a little. By margins large enough that utilities have had to raid stockpiles, government reserves, and secondary supplies just to keep reactors fueled. Those stockpiles are now thinning to levels not seen since the early 2000s. UxC, one of the most respected nuclear-fuel analysts in the world, estimates the current shortfall at roughly 55 million pounds per year. That's before the United States announced a once-in-a-generation nuclear expansion. Before SMRs enter commercial deployment. Before Russia's dominance in enrichment became a political flashpoint. Before utilities around the world began locking in long-term contracts again because they finally understood the math. And here's where things get uncomfortable. Russia controls nearly 50% of global enrichment capacity, the part of the fuel cycle that turns mined uranium into reactor-ready fuel. China has spent the last decade securing its own supply, building reactors faster than any country in the world, and developing closed fuel cycles that reduce dependence on outside sources. Where does that leave the West? With a growing fleet of reactors, record-high electricity demand, a shrinking supply buffer, and an urgent need to secure fuel from sources that don't come with geopolitical strings attached. That's why some U.S. lawmakers are pushing to ban Russian uranium imports entirely. It's why utilities in Europe are accelerating their contracting timelines. It's why conversion and enrichment capacity in the West are now considered strategic assets, not commodities. Because for the first time in modern energy history, the bottleneck isn't the reactor. It's the fuel. And next, we see why that bottleneck is about to tighten even further. 🚀 Get Moonshot Alerts Instantly Markets move in minutes. Your inbox can't keep up. Join the Moonshot VIP Text Service and get real-time alerts, portfolio updates, and first-move intelligence directly to your phone. Be first to know. Anywhere. 👉 [Join the Text List →] SMRs and the Coming Fuel Shock If the uranium market were merely tight, utilities could still muddle through. They've done it before, stretching deliveries, leaning on secondary supplies, improvising around the margins. But the next wave of nuclear demand doesn't leave room for improvisation. Because what's coming isn't just more reactors. It's an entirely new class of reactors. Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are about to change the profile of uranium demand in a way the market is wildly unprepared for. The world's largest nuclear agencies have been warning about this for years. The International Energy Agency says nuclear capacity needs to double by 2050 just to meet decarbonization goals, and that projection didn't include the U.S. committing to a fleet of SMRs. The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency warns that uranium supply faces "imminent shortages" without immediate long‑lead investment. And the World Nuclear Association's own modeling shows that the moment SMRs begin commercial deployment, uranium demand stops behaving like a slow‑moving utility commodity and starts behaving like a growth sector. Why? Because SMRs scale differently. Traditional reactors are megaprojects: one site, one unit, one colossal power block. SMRs are the opposite. They're factory‑built, repeatable, and designed to be deployed in fleets, not one‑offs. A single SMR is manageable. A fleet of dozens, each running on predictable refueling schedules, becomes a structural demand engine. And then there's the fuel itself. Many SMRs use High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU), a fuel that doesn't exist in meaningful commercial quantities outside of Russia. TerraPower needs it. X-energy needs it. Kairos needs it. Almost every advanced reactor in development needs it. And right now, the only country capable of producing HALEU at scale is the one the West is trying to move away from. Meanwhile, U.S. and European agencies estimate HALEU production must increase by a factor of 10 by early 2030 just to support the first wave of SMR deployments. This is the part of the story most investors miss. The world isn't just short on uranium. It's short on the right kind of uranium, and only a handful of Western companies are even positioned to help solve that problem. Because SMRs don't just increase total demand. They compress timelines. They force governments to lock in fuel years earlier. They accelerate long-term contracting cycles. They shrink the buffer between supply and demand until every pound of uranium has a job before it's even mined. This is why conversion and enrichment capacity, things no one cared about five years ago, have become strategic assets overnight. It's why utilities are suddenly desperate to secure multi-cycle contracts. It's why policymakers talk about the fuel cycle with the same urgency they talk about semiconductors. SMRs tighten the squeeze. They take a market already in deficit and pull it forward. Let's now walk straight into the opportunity hiding in the middle of it all. The Company Sitting in the Middle of All This By the time you reach this point in the story, something becomes unmistakably clear: the world is engineering a nuclear renaissance without the nuclear fuel system needed to power it. The United States is launching the largest buildout in half a century. SMRs are preparing to multiply reactor counts in ways the industry has never seen. Utilities are rushing back into long-term contracting. And geopolitical pressure is squeezing the fuel cycle from every direction. Whenever you see pressure building on this many fronts…supply, policy, technology, and geopolitics…you should assume one thing: There is always a fulcrum. A single point where all of these forces converge. And in this case, that fulcrum is a company. Not a startup or an aspirational explorer with more PowerPoints than production. A real company. A company with assets that matter, infrastructure that exists, and a role in the fuel cycle that grows more important with every reactor built, every SMR ordered, and every geopolitical line that hardens. This company sits at the intersection of the U.S. nuclear revival, the global uranium deficit, and the SMR fuel cycle. It benefits from long-term contracting cycles that stretch through the next decade. It is positioned squarely inside the Western supply chain, the one now being rebuilt with urgency, and stands to capture value not just from mining, but from the parts of the fuel cycle investors always overlook until it's too late. It is not priced for what is coming. Not even close. Because most investors still think of uranium as a side story, a commodity theme that comes and goes. They do not see what you now see: that the United States is about to become the world's most important buyer of nuclear fuel… that SMRs will accelerate demand rather than smooth it… and that the supply gap is widening, not shrinking. This company sits in the middle of it all, quietly positioned for a decade-long cycle that most of Wall Street still believes is optional. But as you've seen throughout this essay, nothing about the next decade of power is optional. And today, Premium Members will find the company's name and ticker in the Premium Section below. The Shift You Can't Afford to Ignore By now, the pattern is undeniable. AI is reshaping the world faster than the grid can support it. The United States just reignited a nuclear buildout on a scale most people alive have never seen. The global uranium market is already in deficit before a single new U.S. reactor pours concrete. SMRs are preparing to multiply reactor counts the way the smartphone multiplied computers. And geopolitical pressure is rewriting the fuel cycle in real time. This isn't a story about technology. Or energy. Or geopolitics. It's a story about inevitability. Because when you take exponential electricity demand… layer it on top of baseload requirements the grid can't escape… add a national nuclear revival… stack on a global fuel shortage… and then introduce a new reactor class that accelerates every timeline… You get a hinge in history. And hinges do one thing: They swing open entire eras of opportunity. Most investors won't see it until the headlines catch up, which is always years too late. They'll keep focusing on the AI front end, the chips, the models, the apps, while the real money quietly flows into the infrastructure underneath. Into the fuel. Into the supply chains. Into the companies whose fortunes rise when power becomes the new scarcity. You now understand the world that they don't. You see the pressure building under the surface. You see where the demand is going. And you see the forces converging on a company positioned exactly where this next decade will be won. Premium Members: keep reading below. For everyone else, the window is open…for now. Double D 🔓 Premium Content Begins Here 🔒 In today's Premium Section, you'll find a brand new recommendation we're putting our money in during this stage of the commodity and energy supercycle. I hope you've been paying attention because many of our picks are currently beating the S&P by up to 4-to-1 this year. 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