Google wants to purchase nuclear power for data centres


Google has stated it wants to be climate-neutral by 2030. To achieve this, it is offsetting its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions with countermeasures such as planting trees. — Reuters

SAN JOSE: Google on Monday announced plans to purchase nuclear power to operate data centres in the age of power-hungry artificial intelligence (AI), following in the footsteps of Microsoft.

The tech giant said it is planning to bring California-based Kairos Power's first small modular reactors (SMR) online "quickly and safely by 2030, followed by additional reactor deployments through 2035."

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