New Energy
Google Talks to Utilities About Nuclear Power for Data Centers
- AI boom has caused demand for energy to surge globally
- Microsoft, Amazon are already turning to nuclear power
A Google Cloud data center in Hanau, Germany.
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Google is working with utilities in the US and other countries to assess nuclear power as a possible energy source for its data centers, underscoring surging interest in using atomic energy to feed the artificial intelligence boom.
“In the US, in highly regulated markets where we don’t have the opportunity to directly purchase power, we are working with our utility partners and the generators to come together to figure out how we can bring these new technologies — nuclear may be one of them — to the grid,” said Amanda Peterson Corio, global head of data center energy at Alphabet Inc.’s Google.