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Center Energy

Eve demands of data centers. This means fossil fuel power is still typically used to provide electricity to data centers for many hours of the day. Moreover, following the gutting of tax credit support for wind and solar in the US( a leading data center market) under the‘ Big Beautiful Bill’, much of the upcoming project capacity could be lost. These factors mean investment in emerging carbon-free power solutions such as small modular reactors, enhanced geothermal, and battery energy storage from leading AI players will become increasingly important.

Pope looks at the solutions available to major AI players as they seek to power data centers

Nuclear power

In recent years, data centers have reinvigorated interest in nuclear power solutions. Approaches have ranged from restarting large-scale nuclear fission plants( with Three Mile Island coming back online as soon as 2027 to help power Microsoft data centers) to assisting the commercialization of small modular reactors( SMRs).

By taking advantage of assembly line production, SMRs promise cost reductions and shorter construction times relative to their conventional large-scale counterparts.

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