To power AI energy needs, nuclear is going to have a comeback

Artificial intelligence is no longer a novelty — it’s infrastructure. AI is becoming embedded in public services, health systems, finance, agriculture supply chains, and education. But as countries and companies race to deploy AI, one constraint will determine how far and how fast it spreads: electricity.

Nuclear is the one technology that can reliably deliver carbon-free, always-on power at scale.

The data centers powering AI and cloud computing are multiplying quickly, and each requires an enormous amount of reliable power. The International Energy Agency projects that by 2030, global data centers could consume as much electricity as Japan, the world’s fourth-largest economy, does today. Even modest growth in data-center demand can overwhelm grids that are already capacity-constrained.

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