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Will AI’s huge energy demands spur a nuclear renaissance?
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Contracts with Google and Amazon could help, but bringing new types of reactor online will take larger investments — and time.
Last week, technology giants Google and Amazon unveiled their deals supporting ‘advanced’ nuclear energy, as part of their efforts to become carbon-neutral.
Google announced it will buy electricity made with reactors developed by Kairos Power, based in Alameda, California. Meanwhile, Amazon is investing approximately US$500 million in the X-Energy Reactor Company, based in Rockville, Maryland, and has agreed to buy power produced by X-energy-designed reactors due to be built in Washington State.
Both moves are part of a larger green trend as tech companies deal with the escalating energy requirements of the data centers and number-crunching farms that support artificial intelligence (AI). Last month, Microsoft said it would buy power from a utility company planning to restart a decommissioned 835-megawatt reactor in Pennsylvania.
Read the article at nature.com
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