DENVER, Colorado and AUSTIN, Texas – Crusoe, the industry’s first vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, and Aalo Atomics, the company building fully modular nuclear reactors (XMRs) to power modern AI data centers, today announce a strategic partnership focused on developing and deploying the first nuclear-powered AI Factory data center designed to validate nuclear power’s effectiveness with AI workloads. 

“The next generation of AI infrastructure demands power that is reliable, abundant, clean and at scale, and Aalo’s nuclear reactors are built to meet that need,” said Cully Cavness, Co-Founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer, Crusoe. “One of Crusoe’s core values is to ‘bend the arc of energy toward sustainability,’ and within that value we embrace the principle of using Crusoe’s market position to support and accelerate energy innovation. In line with our core values, we look forward to Aalo and Crusoe jointly demonstrating to the industry the first AI data center powered by a small modular nuclear reactor."

Aalo will initially power a Crusoe Spark ™ modular data center, running Crusoe Cloud, in 2027 as a proof of concept. Looking forward, Aalo and Crusoe intend to deploy Aalo Pods and Aalo’s 50 MWe XMR power plants at Crusoe data centers, by the end of 2029.  

“As one of only four companies to reach criticality by President Trump’s deadline for companies in the DOE Reactor Pilot Program, we are now well positioned for not only the full power operation of our 10 MWe Aalo-X reactor, but also the deployment of the Aalo Pod to power commercial data centers,” said Matt Loszak, CEO, Aalo Atomics. “We are now the only nuclear technology company to design and build a nuclear reactor fueled to produce 10MW of electricity– an achievement that positions Aalo as the premier power provider for the modern data center.”

Aalo has already begun work on its second nuclear reactor, testing a commercial-scale system that will produce electricity and power for an on-site Crusoe Spark™modular data center.