The main technology companies show great interest in nuclear energy and other alternative sources because The boom for artificial intelligence creates a huge demand for energy.
That is why the BIG Tech industry provides more and more support for efforts to increase nuclear power around the world. After a series of nuclear energy contracts concluded at the end of last year, now Google, Meta and Amazon have signed another commitment. During Ceraweek, an annual Energy Conference in Houston, Texas, technology giants They undertook to support the triple of nuclear power around the world by 2050.
Full consent of the three Big Tech giants
“We are proud to sign a commitment to tripling the power of nuclear power plants by 2050, Because nuclear energy will be of key importance for building a reliable, safe and sustainable energy future ” – Reuters quotes the statement of Lucia Tian, head of pure energy and decarbonization technology on Google.
Urvi Parekh, head of global energy in Meta, pointed out that for the rapidly developing economy DStripping energy from a reliable, clean and stable source is the most important. “Nuclear energy, thanks to its ability to ensure continuous energy, can help satisfy this growing demand,” said Parekh.
Brandon Oyer, the head of the energy and water department in America in the Amazon Web Services, who believes that the acceleration of nuclear energy will have a similar opinion will have key importance for strengthening the country’s securitysatisfying future energy needs and solving the problem of climate change.
What has already been done?
As Reuters reminds, in December, Meta asked the US developers in the USA for proposals to deliver from one to four gigawatts of a new production capacity in nuclear power plants from the next decade.
In October, Amazon announced that he had signed three contracts to develop nuclear energy projects. Contracts include the construction of several Small modular reactors (SMR). Compared to traditional reactors, SMR can be started faster because their construction takes less time.
Google announced in October that it signed the “first corporate agreement in the world for the purchase of nuclear energy” from SMR developed by the Cairos Power California company. The first SMR Cairos reactor are to start until the end of the decade.
