Google announced today that it has signed a deal with nuclear startup Kairos Power to build seven small reactors to supply electricity to its data centers. The agreement promises to add around 500 ...

Kairos Power thought 150 MW would be more than enough for the data center market, but customers like Google are now talking about 1 GW data centers. This need can be met, he said, by combining a ...

Google’s datacentres used 30.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity, up from 14.4 million megawatt-hours in 2020, says the ...

Perhaps it's too soon to mark nuclear power's revival in the U.S. but there is a burst of activity that should ultimately ...

Google partnered with Kairos Power in October, for example, pledging to buy power from the firm’s small modular reactors. At the time, Google said the first reactor is expected to enter service ...

Environmental Report shows a 27% surge in data center energy use due to AI, but claims lower emissions. Critics allege ...

Google's data centers have seen a significant increase in electricity use, doubling their consumption within just four years.

Google signs the largest corporate fusion power deal to date, aiming to supply AI-scale energy through its partnership with ...

Google’s data center energy use has doubled in four years, challenging its carbon-free goals amid booming AI and cloud demand ...