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Oracle Wants To Power 1GW Datacenter With Trio Of Tiny Nuclear Reactors

The Register, Wednesday, September 11th, 2024

Isn't saying how much they'll cost or when they'll fire up

Oracle is going nuclear over growing demand for AI datacenters, and that's not a metaphor for Larry Ellison's mood.

On Monday's quarterly earnings call, Oracle's founder, chair and CTO revealed the database giant and cloud provider had secured building permits for a trio of small modular reactors (SMRs) to power a datacenter with over a gigawatt of AI compute capacity.

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