Google turns to nuclear vitality for AI electrical energy demand

Google introduced a cope with vitality startup Kairos Power to provide its information facilities with electrical energy from seven small modular nuclear reactors, which nonetheless should be constructed. A latest examine discovered that by 2026, information facilities will devour greater than 1,000 terawatt hours of electrical energy, about the identical as your entire nation of Japan. Hank Jenkins-Smith, University of Oklahoma professor of public coverage, joins CBS News to elucidate.

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