Load Up on Nuclear Before the Data Center Energy Race Accelerates

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Training clusters and inference farms need round-the-clock baseload power, and grids in Virginia, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest are already strained. That has pushed Microsoft, Amazon, and Google toward direct purchase agreements for nuclear power with utilities and small modular reactor developers, with all three having signed such agreements over the past two years.

Original reporting: 24/7 Wall St..