Santee Cooper plans to seek investors willing to buy the two unfinished reactors it abandoned at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station more than seven years ago

The utility, Santee Cooper, is trying to sell two nuclear reactors that it abandoned in 2017 as tech companies seek new sources of electricity for data centers.

Santee Cooper has initiated a process to seek proposals for the acquisition and completion of two partially constructed generating units at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Jenkinsville, S.C., in response to the increasing national interest in new nuclear power for meeting the growing demand for electricity.

South Carolina utility Santee Cooper is seeking buyers to restart construction of two stalled nuclear reactor projects nearly a decade after they were halted. Why it matters: Electricity providers are pursuing once-unthinkable energy projects to meet soaring demand from power-hungry AI and data centers.

Santee Cooper is now seeking proposals to acquire and complete, or propose alternatives, for two partially constructed nuclear units at the V.C. Summer Station.

Construction of the two reactors was abandoned in 2017, which was considered a major blow to the nuclear power industry.

Santee Cooper, the big power provider in South Carolina, has tapped financial advisers to look for buyers that can restart construction on a pair of nuclear reactors that were mothballed years ago. The state-owned utility is betting interest will be strong,