Google agreed to finance the development of three nuclear sites with Elementl Power, the nuclear developer announced on Wednesday.
The technological company will encompass the development capital to advance the three projects, to be implemented on the site permit, contractual negotiations and other costs at an early stage.
Elementl Power has not revealed how much Google agreed to spend.
Each site would generate at least 600 megawatts of energy, and Google will be able to buy the food once the projects are completed.
Companies have not announced the locations provided for new sites.
“Google undertakes to catalyze projects that strengthen the electrical networks in which we operate and advanced nuclear technology provides reliable energy, Baseload, 24/7,” said Amanda Peterson Cio, Global Google Manager of the Energy Center, in a press release.
“Our collaboration with Elementl Power improves our ability to move at the speed necessary to respect this moment of AI and American innovation,” added Peterson.
Elementl Power is called “Technology Agnostic”, which means that it has not settled on a sort of reactor to use on its sites, and will wait to choose the most advanced version during its production.
The company, founded in 2022, has not yet built sites.
Silicon Valley giants have joined nuclear developers to stimulate the energy supply of massive data centers that feed artificial intelligence models.
Google has teamed up with Kairos Power in October, for example, committing to buying energy from the small modular reactors of the company. At the time, Google said the first reactor should enter service by 2030.
The CEO of Elementl Power, Chris Colbert, said that the nuclear reactor treated with large technological companies “are necessary to mobilize the capital required to build new nuclear projects, which are essential to offer safe, affordable and clean basic power and help companies advance their long -term net objectives.”
Elementl plans to raise capital from other sources when the time comes to build projects.
The company aims to add more than 10 gigawatts of nuclear energy to the national network by 2035.
But doubts have surfaced as to whether these vast data centers are necessary to supply the robots to advance after the depth of China in January launched a competitive model which it claimed to do in short cost at low cost.
The managers of the Amazon and Nvidia industry last month said that the construction of data centers did not slow down and that the need to be able to increase.
“We continue to see a very high demand, and we are looking for both in the next two years as well as in the long term and seeing that the figures were only going up,” said Kevin Miller, vice-president of the Amazon global data centers at a conference last month.
