Company announced “Google“It will purchase nuclear energy from the emerging American company, Kairos Power, which the company will produce using small, new-generation reactors called small modular reactor SMR,” according to what was reported by Agence France-Presse.
The contract stipulates that Kairos' first SMR station will be operated by 2030, with production increasing until 2035, to provide an additional response to the enormous electricity needs of Alphabet, the parent company of Google.
Google declined to discuss the value of this contract.
The emergence of remote computing, or so-called “cloud computing”, has led to an increase in energy consumption among major players in this sector such as “Google” and…Microsoft“and”Amazon“, due to the use of server storage centers (data centers).
The importance of these centers has increased with the development of generative artificial intelligence (AI), which requires huge amounts of data and semiconductors.
To ensure that they have sufficient electricity resources, prominent companies in the field of cloud computing enter into agreements with suppliers of renewable energy, especially nuclear energy.
At the end of September, Microsoft announced a partnership with the American group Constellation Energy, which provides for the reopening of a reactor at the Three Mile Island power station in Pennsylvania.
The second reactor at Three Mile Island was closed in 1979, the year that witnessed the most serious accident in the field of American civilian nuclear energy.
SMR such as Kairos FHR; They are new generation reactors, none of which have yet been operated in the United States, according to the French.
Although the cost of creating prototypes is high, in the long run it should be much lower than the cost of conventional nuclear power plants, because they can be produced in series.