A look at the US Energy Department's Argonne National Lab, whose AI-based PRO-AID tool assists in nuclear reactor design and helps operators run nuclear plants
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Amazon, Google, and Meta join a World Nuclear Association statement, alongside Occidental, Dow, and others, to triple capacity by 2050; Microsoft didn't sign
Tech giants join banks in calling for new power stations to meet growing energy demands and combat climate change
OpenAI says the US National Laboratories will use its o1 models for research; it will work with Microsoft to deploy a model on Los Alamos' Venado supercomputer
OpenAI on Thursday said the U.S. National Laboratories will be using its latest artificial intelligence models for scientific research and nuclear weapons security.
A look at The Stargate Project: unanswered questions, PR wins, SoftBank only has ~$30B cash, many projects are old news, and Elon Musk trolled the announcement
$500B in CapEx for AI in the US feels like a good thing for US security and for AI's continued progress in capabilities. Google's entire capex in 2024 was $50B. This is a hard amount of money to actua...
Google signs an deal to buy nuclear energy generated from multiple small modular reactors developed by US-based Kairos Power, targeting 500 MW by 2035
Startup Kairos Power plans to build small reactors to help supply electricity to the tech company's data centers, in a first-of-its-kind deal in the U.S.
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are increasingly eyeing nuclear reactors, which provide steady “baseload” power, as their carbon emissions climb due to AI tools
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Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for data centers
Nuke Will Be Restarted To Power Microsoft Data Center Spencer Kimball / CNBC : Constellation Energy to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant, sell the power to Microsoft for AI Lawrence Bonk / Engad...
Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for data centers
Nuke Will Be Restarted To Power Microsoft Data Center Jordan Valinsky / CNN : Three Mile Island is reopening and selling its power to Microsoft Reuters : Constellation to restart Three Mile Island nuc...
OpenAI forms Preparedness, a new team to assess, evaluate, and probe AI models to protect against “catastrophic risks”, including biological and nuclear threats
HPE partners with AMD to use its chips in HPE's $600M US DOE supercomputer contract announced last August to optimize AI and ML for nuclear weapons support
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