Big Tech turns to nuclear energy to fuel power-intensive AI
Oct 15, 2024 · Technology giants are turning to nuclear energy to power the energy-intensive data centers needed to train and run the massive artificial intelligence models behind today's …
Artificial Intelligence wants to go nuclear. Will it work? - NPR
Dec 9, 2024 · AI datacenters may soon require a gigawatt of electricity to run—the equivalent of around a million households. That makes some long-time watchers of the nuclear industry skeptical.
The AI industry is pushing a nuclear power revival - NBC News
Mar 7, 2024 · A nuclear startup backed by OpenAI chief Sam Altman wants to power data centers and homes alike. It’s racing against surging demand while working to satisfy regulators.
Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres - BBC
Oct 15, 2024 · Google has signed a deal to use small nuclear reactors to generate the vast amounts of energy needed to power its artificial intelligence (AI) data centres. The company says the agreement with...
Three tech companies eyeing nuclear power for AI energy
Dec 4, 2024 · Learn how and why Big Tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft are turning to nuclear power for AI energy.
Microsoft, Google and Amazon turn to nuclear energy to fuel the AI …
Oct 29, 2024 · Big tech companies are scrambling to secure nuclear energy deals worth billions of dollars in order to meet the growing demands of generative artificial intelligence (AI) — but critics say they...
Nuclear power's AI renaissance - Axios
Sep 30, 2024 · Small modular reactor startup X-energy plans to deploy units that would power a Dow industrial site in Texas by 2030. Nuclear startup Oklo, backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, finalized a deal with the Energy Department last week to carry out site inspections for its proposed small nuclear reactor in Idaho.
AI Makes Nuclear Viable, Not Yet Inevitable - CSIS
Oct 4, 2024 · Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the game for nuclear power, and potentially, the direction of the U.S. electric power sector. Last week, Constellation, a major power plant operator, announced that it will restart an 835 megawatt (MW) nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania with Microsoft as the sole contracted buyer of the ...
Will AI’s huge energy demands spur a nuclear renaissance? - Nature
Oct 25, 2024 · Last week, technology giants Google and Amazon both unveiled deals supporting ‘advanced’ nuclear energy, as part of their efforts to become carbon-neutral. Google announced that it will buy...
AI’s nuclear opportunity - Nuclear Engineering International
Oct 3, 2024 · The report suggests AI models could generate the outlines, descriptions and key artifacts needed early in the nuclear power plant development lifecycle to support environmental, stakeholder and engineering document development.