Every AI News story tagged with both AI Data Center Buildout and AI & Energy — the two topics side by side, updated as new articles publish.
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A small modular reactor is a compact, factory-built nuclear plant under 300 megawatts. AI companies are betting billions on them to keep power-hungry data centers running around the clock.
Read more →Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics, days after its Ward 250 reactor became the first outside a US national lab to reach criticality and power an Nvidia system.
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A single AI chat reply uses a fraction of a watt-hour, but billions of daily queries and the data centers behind them add up to a fast-growing power and water bill.
Read more →A Blackstone-led investor group is funding 49% of five natural-gas power plants that pipeline giant Williams is building largely to supply electricity to AI data centers.
Read more →Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing new hyperscale data center permits for up to a year, citing rising electricity bills and grid strain from AI-driven demand.
Read more →AI data centers pack thousands of GPUs into liquid-cooled buildings that draw as much power as a small city — here's what sets them apart, and why tech firms now build power plants to run them.
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