The company Google announced this morning that it has signed the first agreement corporate world to buy nuclear power of multiple reactors small modularSMRin its acronym in English) with the company Kairos Powerin order to feed their centers of data of Artificial Intelligence (IA), according to its corporate blog.
He agreement predicts that the first SMR of Kairos Power will be operational in 2030, followed by others reactors in 2035. At the moment, he has not given details of the cost of the agreement nor the location of the new central.
In the statement, Google highlights that new sources of electricity are necessary to support the development of the IA and that this agreement helps accelerate technological development, while promoting decarbonization energy.
Recent studies have warned about the consumption of energy of the centers data and have warned that the growing use of artificial intelligence will multiply the electrical expense.
In fact, this summer, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) revealed that a third of manufacturing plants nuclear power of the US was in talks with technology companies to supply electricity to new centers of data necessary to meet the demands of the boom in artificial intelligence.
He agreement of Google con Kairos Power corroborates this trend that, for the Mountain View company, complements the use of renewable energiessuch as solar and wind, and must be the definitive step to achieve the objective of energy free of carbon in all his productions.
Last year, the Regulatory Commission Nuclear (NRC) of the USA granted a permit to Kairos Power for the construction of a new type of reactor a Tennessee.
According to Googlethe technology of Kairos Power uses a molten salt cooling system, which allows the reactor operates at low pressure, allowing for a simpler and more affordable design.
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