Alongside questions of how the major AI tech firms are data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openais-significant-investments-raise-more-questions-than-answers-ceo-sam-altman-remains-tight-lipped-about-how-the-company-will-deliver” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openais-significant-investments-raise-more-questions-than-answers-ceo-sam-altman-remains-tight-lipped-about-how-the-company-will-deliver”>going to afford the AI-revolution they’re all driving us towards, others remain over how they’re going to power it. With 9% of the entire US electricity demand expected to come from data centers by 2035, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-29/ai-data-centers-are-small-nuclear-reactors-the-answer-to-power-demands” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-29/ai-data-centers-are-small-nuclear-reactors-the-answer-to-power-demands” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>according to Bloomberg, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google”>Google, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/amazon” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/amazon”>Amazon, Oracle, and others are pursuing investments in small, modular nuclear reactors as potential solutions for on-site power without the intermittent service downsides of renewable energy.
In 2024, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/google-adopts-small-nuclear-power-reactors-at-unprecedented-scale-inks-deal-for-seven-reactors-to-feed-ai-data-centers” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/google-adopts-small-nuclear-power-reactors-at-unprecedented-scale-inks-deal-for-seven-reactors-to-feed-ai-data-centers”>Google struck a…
