Google partners with Elementl Power on nuclear energy sites as power demand for AI grows

Google announces deals for nuclear projects, cutting superpollutants

The deals with Elementl Power, Recoolit and Cool Effect will provide early stage financing for three nuclear energy projects and eliminate 25,000 tons of superpollutants from the atmosphere.

Google To Fund Three Nuclear Sites, Says The Move Will Allow Them To 'Move At The Speed Required To Meet This Moment Of AI And American Innovation' - Overpasses For America

Elementl Power said Wednesday that it had signed a strategic agreement with Google to develop three sites for advanced reactors. Chris Colbert, Elementl Power’s CEO. Don’t Miss: CNBC, instead opting to wait and see which reactor technology is furthest along in development when the time comes. Trending: Nancy Pelosi Invested $5 Million In An AI Company Last Year — Here’s How You Can Invest In Multiple Pre-IPO AI Startups With Just $1,000. Story C…

Google To Fund Three Nuclear Sites, Says The Move Will Allow Them To 'Move At The Speed Required To Meet This Moment Of AI And American Innovation' - Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)

Nuclear technology enables reliable energy that “supports artificial intelligence and American innovation,” says Amanda Peterson Corio.

Google is Building Three New Nuclear Plants for Its Extremely Power-Hungry AI

It's no secret that artifiical intelligence eats kilowatts for breakfast. Just one AI-generated image consumes as much energy as it takes to charge a smartphone. At scale, that energy demand is seriously adding up. With the mass-adoption of the energy-hungry tech, data center power usage in North America surged from 2,688 megawatts in 2022 to 5,341 by 2023, according to MIT News. That helped catapult data centers up to the 11th largest electrica…

Plutonium is Forever... at State Capitol

by Anonymous As it was said (and sang) in 1979, plutonium is forever…with thousands of years of radioactivity from nuclear fission (especially plutonium 239). Jeff Bezos—proving again that he is not Democracy’s friend—and his colleagues at Google are lobbying our Legislature to buy into the costly scam of small modular nuclear reactors. Proponents claim that this reactor model is safe (very unproven) and downplay that they want tax dollars to su…