Tech giants go nuclear in AI arms race


A cooling tower at the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania, US, on Oct 16, 2024. Constellation Energy Corp, the owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant, will invest US$1.6bil to revive it, agreeing to sell all the output to Microsoft Corp as the tech titan seeks carbon-free electricity for data centers to power the artificial intelligence boom. — Bloomberg

WASHINGTON: The artificial intelligence arms race has gone nuclear.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are now looking to outgun each other with announcements on atomic energy, which they hope will power a technology that is consuming electricity at an alarming rate.

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