# Fluor Corporation A major global engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firm headquartered in Irving, Texas. Founded in 1912, the company trades on the NYSE as FLR and reported $15.5 billion in revenue with a $25.5 billion backlog (81% reimbursable) in 2025. Fluor operates across energy, chemicals, mining, infrastructure, and — increasingly — data center and nuclear power markets. ## Data Center Construction Fluor views AI-driven power demand as a core growth opportunity but has been selective about which data center projects it pursues, favoring those that match its risk profile. Its Advanced Technologies business signed a limited notice to proceed with TeraWulf covering master planning and pre-construction services for a large-scale brownfield data center campus in North Central Kentucky with access to up to 480 MW of grid-connected power. The company sees domestic gas-fueled power as its primary entry point within the data center ecosystem, with meaningful backlog growth expected in the first half of 2027. This positions Fluor as one of the engineering firms physically building the infrastructure behind [[The Quest for 90 Gigawatts]]. ## Nuclear and DOE Work Fluor is a major [[Department of Energy]] contractor with deep ties to the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. A Fluor-led joint venture holds the management and operations contract with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina — one of the country's most sensitive nuclear facilities. In Q1 2026, Fluor signed an engineering and construction contract with Centrus to oversee development of a new advanced uranium enrichment plant expansion at the DOE's Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio. The company is positioning itself across the nuclear value chain as global investment in small modular reactors and fuel enrichment infrastructure accelerates. ## Defense and Government Beyond DOE, Fluor maintains a significant government services portfolio including defense facility construction and intelligence-related infrastructure. This makes it part of the same [[Military-Industrial Complex]] ecosystem as peers like Bechtel, KBR, and Jacobs — firms whose revenue depends heavily on federal contract flows. ## KB Relevance Fluor and firms like it are the physical layer of the AI infrastructure boom — the companies actually pouring concrete and pulling wire for the data centers and power plants that [[Artificial Intelligence]] requires. While the tech press focuses on chips and models, the engineering contractors converting gigawatt-scale ambitions into built reality are where policy, energy markets, and construction labor converge. Fluor's dual positioning in data center construction and nuclear fuel infrastructure makes it a useful node for tracking how the 90 GW buildout actually gets executed. ## See Also - [[The Quest for 90 Gigawatts]] - [[Artificial Intelligence]] - [[Department of Energy]] - [[Lancium]] - [[Military-Industrial Complex]]