Nuclear-Powered Data Centers: Practical Or A Pipe Dream?
DataCenter Knowledge, Thursday, June 1,2023
It's clean, efficient, and abundant, but is nuclear a good way to power data centers? Let's dig in.
According to the US Department of Energy, data centers are one of the most energy-intensive building types, consuming 10- to 50-times the energy per floor space of a typical commercial office building. 'Collectively,' the agency notes on its website, 'these spaces account for approximately 2% of total US electricity use, and as 'the' country's use of information technology grows, data center and server energy use is expected to grow too.'