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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday July 2nd. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

Big tech companies are looking to buy nuclear power

directly from plants.

We'll tell you why and what that could mean for the power grid.

And then, United Launch Alliance was formed in 2006 when Boeing and Lockheed Martin fused

their rival space launch businesses. For years when the Pentagon needed a launch,

ULA was on speed dial. These days things are different. Our reporter Mike

and Mademberg will join us to explain what's changed and the challenges the company is facing with its new rocket.

But first, new data centers needed to meet the demands of the artificial intelligence boom

require a lot of power, and tech companies have zeroed in on a key target, America's nuclear power plants.

Here to tell us more is our reporter Jennifer Hiller.

So Jennifer, why has nuclear power in particular caught the eye of tech giants?

There's a few things that make this a good match up for both sides in a lot of ways.

The nuclear plants have really struggled in this country, the ones that operate in competitive power markets for several years, and it's only been in the last few years that we haven't seen those plants closing down.

So in some ways you have a wealthy customer in the tech companies that can help

support the ongoing operations and re-licensing and just work that needs to go on to keep the nuclear power plants that we have online.

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