Big tech needs to find more energy-efficient ways to run AI data centers, and direct their major energy investments, along ...

Within a few years, the most advanced AI models are projected to need five gigawatts of ... and whether a restart could ...

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, could reopen in 2028. The plant’s owner, Constellation Energy, signed a deal with Microsoft that ...

A few dozen ChatGPT queries cost a bottle’s worth of water. Tech firms should consider simpler solutions, such as harvesting ...

Google signs nuclear power deal with startup Kairos and experts warn about the importance of new sources of energy for facing ...

Data centers use a lot of computational power, requiring a steady supply of water to cool the systems, which can be solved by ...

Environmental regulators reportedly quashed Mark Zuckerberg’s nuclear plant partnership meant to help power Meta’s ongoing artificial intelligence projects. Details remain scarce, but the main reason ...

Anna Erickson of Georgia Tech explains why the public and private sectors are investing in reactor technology and restarting retired plants. The system, though, still faces cost, safety and regulatory ...

to help "deliver on the progress of AI." Microsoft last month signed a deal with U.S. energy firm Constellation to resurrect a defunct reactor at the notorious Three Mile Island nuclear power ...

Three Mile Island, which is located in Pennsylvania on ... driven in part by Big Tech's energy-intensive AI data center expansion has led to a revival of the country's struggling nuclear industry.

Chips and energy are the picks and shovels of the AI movement, making reexamining ... One is that these projects — even the Three Mile Island reactor, which isn’t using new technology ...

But, disasters like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl ... Ironically, the enormous appetite for power from AI data centers may ultimately reduce greenhouse gas emissions.