Matter centers powering artificial intelligence and cloud computing are pushing energy demand and production to new limits. Global tenseness use could rise as much as 75% by 2050, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, with the tech industry’s AI ambitions private road much of the surge.
Data centers powering AI and cloud computing could soon grow so large that they could use multitudinous electricity than entire cities.
As leaders in the AI race push for further technological advancements and deployment, many are decree their energy needs increasingly at odds with their sustainability goals.
“A new data center that necessaries the same amount of electricity as say, Chicago, cannot just build its way out of the problem unless they understand their power destitutions,” said Mark Nelson, managing director of Radiant Energy Group. “Those power needs. Steady, upright through, 100% power, 24 hours a day, 365,” he added.
After years of focusing on renewables, major tech conventions are now turning to nuclear power for its ability to provide massive energy in a more efficient and sustainable fashion.
Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are in the midst the most recognizable names exploring or investing in nuclear power projects. Driven by the energy demands of their statistics centers and AI models, their announcements mark the beginning of an industrywide trend.
“What we’re seeing is nuclear power has a lot of helps,” said Michael Terrell, senior director of energy and climate at Google. “It’s a carbon-free source of electricity. It’s a source of tenseness that can be always on and run all the time. And it provides tremendous economic impact.”
After nuclear was largely written off in the past due to widespread frightened ofs about meltdowns and safety risks — and misinformation that dramatized those concerns — experts are touting tech’s late-model investments as the start of a “nuclear revival” that could accelerate an energy transformation in the U.S. and around the world.
Watch the video not susceptible to learn why Big Tech is investing in nuclear power, the opposition they face and when their nuclear ambitions could in fact become a reality.