The case for self-powered, closed-loop AI data centers
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How AI data centers get their electricity: on-site generation, small nuclear reactors, and what is actually running today.
Nuclear startup Blue Energy has asked the Texas grid operator to connect up to five small reactors meant to power a Crusoe data center. Gas plants would come first, in 2030 and 2031, with the first reactor expected in 2033.
Amazon has agreed to buy power from Constellation's Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant for 20 years. The companies say the deal will pay for about 190 megawatts of new capacity, due between 2030 and 2032.
Valar Atomics wants to build a nuclear-powered campus near Price, Utah, with first reactors running in 2028. Federal land managers are still checking whether the application is complete.
We Energies and Oracle have agreed that Oracle will subscribe to between 10 and 20 percent of the electricity from the Point Beach nuclear plant. State regulators still have to approve it.
Amazon will buy power from Constellation's Calvert Cliffs plant under an agreement that includes about 190 megawatts of new generating capacity, due between 2030 and 2032.
