A Japanese power company is turning its own plant into a $15 billion AI computer

JERA, Dell and RHAELM plan to build a data centre directly at an existing power plant, skipping the grid queue that is slowing AI buildouts everywhere else.

2 October 2026 · 5 min read · L1 Power and land · The Pulse, 1 October 2026

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Everything above is written from these. Each line says what that document proves.

jera.co.jp: JERA's own release: the $15bn figure, up-to-400MW capacity, 2028 target, and MOU structure, read directly
rhaelm.com: RHAELM's own posting of the joint announcement, confirming the deal as a counterparty
sbbit.jp: Independent Japanese business reporting adding the 'behind the meter' framing and the multi-year-faster claim
ercot.com: Already-published ERCOT data on the queue of large-load interconnection requests, used for the diagram's first node

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