The company will purchase nuclear energy from several small modular reactors (SMR) from the company Kairos Power. The first reactor will be operational in 2030, followed by others in 2035. Google says this will help decarbonize the energy.
The company Google announced that it has signed the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear energy from multiple sources. small modular reactors (SMRin English acronym) with the company Kairos powerto power its artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, according to its company blog.
The agreement foresees that Kairos Power’s first SMR will be operational in 2030, followed by other reactors in 2035. At this time, it has not provided details on the cost of the agreement or the location of the new plants.
Multiplication of energy consumption
In the statement, Google emphasized that new sources of electricity are needed to support the development of AI and that this agreement will help accelerate technology development while promoting the decarbonization of the energy sector.
Recent studies have raised awareness about data center energy consumption and warned that the increasing use of artificial intelligence will increase electricity expenditure.
In fact, this summer The Wall Street Journal revealed that a third of the plants The US nuclear power plant was in talks with technology companies to supply electricity to new data centers needed to meet the demands of the artificial intelligence boom.
Google’s agreement with Kairos Power confirms this trend which, for the Mountain View company, complements the use of renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind energy, and should be the definitive step to achieve the goal of carbon-free energy in all their productions reaches.
Last year, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) granted a license to Kairos Power to produce a new type of reactor in Tennessee.
Source: EITB
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