Big Tech bets on nuclear uprates as the easy wins start running out
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Google, Amazon and others are squeezing more power from existing reactors, but the supply of suitable sites is limited Big Tech has found a faster way to get more nuclear power onto the grid. The catch is that there aren’t many places left to do it. Google , Amazon , Microsoft and Meta need enormous amounts of electricity for AI data centers and cloud computing. A growing share of that hunger is now being fed by upgrading reactors that already exist, rather than waiting years for new ones to be built. The industry term is an uprate .
Source: Crypto Briefing
