Top technical companies with nuclear plants are partners as AI needs AI energy

There has been little change in American energy consumption in the last decade. Efforts to make energy use more efficient have kept the level low. But in the next five years, the demand for electricity for power data centers is expected to exceed double. Some estimates show that facilities require the same energy in 2030 as the whole country of Japan today.

“Every investor is lining to invest in the next AI success. But when it comes to energy, there is a challenge in the context of permission, for the reality of construction time for new power plants and new grid capabilities,” said the senior advisor to the Wadhwani AI Center at Strategic and International Studies Center. “It can all slow down AI as if research and development is preparing for takeoff.”

The demand for tech firms falls amid doubt from consumers. According to a Fox News Poll, how voters felt about AI in society, 43% saw it as a good thing, while 47% thought it was a bad thing.

“I think it is natural that people will always have, calling it a mixture of hopes and concerns about a new technique and especially a new technology,” said Brad Smith, president of Microsoft. “The truth is that we all already trust AI, even if we don’t think about it.”

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While according to the 2023 voting, positive ideas have increased rapidly than negative ideas, the subgroups expressed their opinion throughout the board. Most rural voters, white voters, women and people over 45 years of age saw AI as a bad thing. Urban voters, non-wet voters, men and people under 45 saw technology as good. Among the major political parties, the registered Republican was the most optimistic about AI but no party approval was above 50%.

Despite some negative sentiments of most voters, tech companies are moving forward.

“AI depends on a lot that we call calculations. A lot of chips that do a lot of calculations and a lot of data are accessed and stored. So everyone requires more electricity. And that is why we have to pursue a new partnership because we are with companies that generate electricity,” Smith said.

At least two nuclear plants are scheduled to thank for the Big Tech Partnership.

“I think all this will become a growing part of the country’s electricity future,” Smith said. “It makes sense to invest only for an power company, to bring something online like a three -mile island if someone is going to buy it. And in this case, Microsoft entered a long -term advanced purchase agreement with the constellation.”

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The three mile island is located near Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. The site is the most widely known for partial meltdowns of its unit 2 reactor in 1979. It was one of the most serious nuclear accidents in American history. The reactor was immediately taken offline after.

John “Jack” Herbin, vice -president of Metropolitan Edison, said at the time, “very small scars of radioactivity are released from the plant.”

While there were no detectable health effects, the phenomenon changed how nuclear plants operate. Three Mile Islands closed for economic reasons in Unite 1 2019. Nakshatra and Microsoft plan to restart the reactor as 2027, now called the Crane Energy Center. This will add more than 800 megawatt energy. This is enough to give strength to more than 800,000 houses. Nuclear power has the highest energy efficiency rate, yet energy producers say that the US should remain diverse.

“I think it’s going to be an important part of the mixture,” said the constellation president and CEO Joseph Dominguase. “We do not require 24/7 electricity for the full amount of electricity in the US, we still have seasonal needs, we still have the differences of day and night.”

Microsoft is working to add back the amount of power to the grid that will use the company’s data centers from the regional transmission system.

“Our philosophy as a company is that we will invest to bring the electric grid, more or more electricity we will consume.” “We will do this in a way that ensures that no neighbor is going to see the increase in its electricity rates.”

The constellation has been partnered with meta to absorb its Clinton Clean Energy Center in Central Illinois for another 20 years.

Dominguase said, “This is a combination of existing megawatts and new megawatts, which are being developed according to the great agreements we have with hypersscalers.”

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Meta plans to connect four gigawatts of nuclear production in the US starting in the early 2030s. Amazon will build two data center complexes in Pennsylvania and use about two gigawatts of electricity from the atomic plant of Talen Energy. Google is partnered with elemental power over three nuclear projects, each expected to produce 600 MW.

“It is all atom. It is a hot industry. It’s a great industry,” President Donald Trump said he signed several executive orders in May. They are to quadruple domestic nuclear power production within the next 25 years.

“To win the AI ​​race, we need a lot of energy,” White House AI and Crypto Caesar David Sachs said. “New AI data centers are very electrical hungry. They consume too much electricity. And the US electric grid has not actually happened much in the last decade.”

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“We must have the most infrastructure. We need to be the most data centers. We need the most computing power, and this means more energy,” Sachs said. “China has doubled the size of its electric grid in the last decade. We have not done so and so we need to drill baby drill and produce a child.”