Trump’s Shocking List Revealed!

Brian Hicks

Posted November 22, 2025

Here we go — the moment we’ve been pointing to for months has finally arrived. If you’ve been following our work at Wealth Daily — especially our “MoneyQuake” thesis — prepare for a few chest thumps…

Because the news from Constellation Energy, the Three Mile Island site (now rebadged as the Crane Clean Energy Center), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is exactly what we told you was coming — only faster, hotter, and more consequential than many expected.

Let’s dive in…

The Headline Moment

The DOE has locked in a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy to restart an 835 MW reactor at the Three Mile Island site, shuttered since 2019.

That restart isn’t a sideshow; it’s explicitly tied to the build-out of AI data centers and the massive energy demand surge they’re driving.

The deal is framed as part of the current administration’s “energy + AI + industrial re-industrialization” push in one.

Why This Matters (and Matters Big)

We’ve been saying it for months in our “MoneyQuake” narrative: The next great asset supercycle isn’t just about gold and mining — though make no mistake, those remain central — it’s about energy, infrastructure, nuclear power, and the raw materials that power the AI-industrial complex.

Recall our piece from a few weeks ago "The Cloud That Ate the World: Inside AI’s Hidden Industrial Revolution," where we flagged the fact that AI is no longer ethereal. It’s concrete, steel, copper, and uranium. We argued, “If you’ve been following MoneyQuake, you already know… the next bull market isn't virtual. It’s physical. Tangible.”

Well, here comes the proof point: A shuttered nuclear plant, once a symbol of the aborted “nuclear future,” is being resurrected — with taxpayer-backed money — to fuel AI centers. 

The overlap of energy policy, tech infrastructure, nuclear revival and industrial build-out is exactly the thesis we laid down.

The Backstory You Should Already Know

We flagged this shift weeks ago: the explosion of demand for data centers, AI compute, and the massive underlying energy appetite. From my "Cloud That Ate the World" article:

Every new data center is a physical fortress — a steel-and-cement cathedral to computation… Over the next decade the U.S. AI build-out will require 15 million tons of steel… 50 million tons of concrete… 1.5 million tons of copper…

Yes, you read that right. Three Mile Island… is being brought back to life to feed Microsoft’s data centers.

We wrote it. We believed it. We said the energy system would be flipped on its head. And now the DOE/Constellation deal is the headline.

When you dig deeper, the site in Pennsylvania (Three Mile Island) hasn’t been passive. According to Constellation’s press release, the center is "more than 80% staffed with over 500 employees," will create "3,400 direct and indirect jobs and more than 800 MW of carbon-free electricity operating 24/7,” and will "generate over $16 billion for Pennsylvania’s GDP."

This isn’t speculation — this is execution.

What This Signals for the Market

  1. Nuclear redux — Nuclear is back in America. Not some distant notion but a real plant, real loan, real timeline. For years, we argued nuclear had been sidelined via ESG, permitting delay, cost-overrun stigma. No more. This is a revival.

  2. AI infrastructure fuels commodities — We flagged copper, steel, uranium, and their kind as the next bull wave. This event ties them together in one big story: Power to AI => need for co-located infrastructure => demand for large baseload supply.

  3. Government as accelerator — The DOE’s loan (through its Loan Programs Office) signals a shift: the state is actively underwriting the winning wholesale narrative of energy + tech + industrial scale. That means risk is being repriced.

  4. Investment vantage — If you’re in our world, this isn’t merely about “buying the story.” It’s about getting ahead of policy cascades and infrastructure spend waves. Reactors get expensive, complex, and drawn-out — but when the policy momentum is there, early positioning pays.

But We’re Not Naive

Let’s walk through the caveats with transparency:

  • Nuclear restarts are hard. Even if a site is partially intact, you still need licensing (from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission), large capital spends, community approval, and coolant/water/permit logistics. The refurbished reactor is expected online by 2027–28.

  • The politics and public image matter. TMI is legendary for a meltdown in 1979 — though the unit being restarted is a different one. Still, geopolitical, environmental, and regulatory risks endure.

  • Commodities and infrastructure do not yield overnight returns. The wave is large, but timing is tricky. Our job is to ride the trend, not expect it to peak instantly.

  • Subsidy/model risk: With public dollars involved ($1 billion is a sizable loan guarantee), expectations are elevated. Execution must match ambition.

Our Message to the Moneyquake Readers

We told you. We warned you. We laid the framework in our earlier article. And now the sea change is visible.

If you were with us then and you’re with us now, you get the reinforcement: We are operating in the right narrative.

The headline is big — but the real action is in what comes after:

  • Look for nuclear-enabled infrastructure plays.

  • Look for commodities tied to AI build-out — uranium, copper, steel, cement, and data center real estate.

  • Look for policy accelerators. When the government kicks in with dollars, permits, and loans, it means the inertia has shifted.

  • Think baseload edge. The mantra we’ve repeated: Intermittent renewables serve a purpose, but AI and industrial scale infrastructure demand 24/7, stable, reliable power. Nuclear fills that gap.

  • Recognize the narrative power. We aren’t just in a tech revolution; we’re in an industrial-energy-tech revolution. The “cloud” may look weightless, but as our article “The Cloud That Ate the World” reminded us, it is massively heavy in input materials, energy, and infrastructure.

What’s Next — and How to Play It

Our call to action: With the foundation laid, we must prepare for Phase Two of this bull wave.

  • Scan uranium plays — Companies positioned to benefit from reactor restarts, new permit flows, nuclear supply chain revitalization.

  • Track heavy materials — Our commodities thesis remains intact: copper, steel, concrete, rare earths will be the guts of this build-out.

  • Keep an eye on nuclear finance mechanisms — The DOE loan to Constellation is a test case. More will follow. That means early entrants in nuclear construction, financing, service, overhaul are potential beneficiaries.

  • Mind policy risk and timing — The window is open, but the race is still ahead. Don’t expect a straight line up. Use the momentum, but structure for volatility.

  • Bridge to precious metals — Gold (and our preferred dynamic, including NatGold) remains the anchor in a world of structural shifts. With resources stretched and governments focused on industrial rebirth, the safe-value side of the balance sheet matters.

Final Thought

We’ve laid the road map. We’ve sounded the bell. And now the first major milestone has been reached.

When you tell people you got in early — you’ll be able to say you were ahead of the crowd, you saw what the mainstream didn’t yet, you acted when the narrative was just a ripple.

Today we say: Stand up, smirk a little, because the headline just vindicated the thesis.
The cloud was never weightless. And the next gold rush isn’t in motherboards. It’s in power plants, uranium rods, copper wires, concrete foundations — and yes, in the precious metals that anchor value in a world building new infrastructure.

If you’ve been following our MoneyQuake series, you already know it. If you’re new, welcome to the story. Stake your ground.

Because we’re not just observing the boom. We’re riding it.

Onward to the next wave.

Get to the good, green grass first…

The Prophet of Profit,

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Brian is a founding member and President of Angel Publishing. He writes about general investment strategies for Wealth Daily and Energy and Capital. Brian is the managing editor and investment director of R.I.C.H Report  (Retired Independent Carefree Healthy), New World Assets and Extreme Opportunities. For more on Brian, take a look at his editor’s page.

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