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"Data centres are power hungry things, but with AI we're moving into a new level of power requirements.""Data centres are power hungry things, but with AI we're moving into a new level of power requirements."It's no secret that keeping an AI data center running requires an immense amount of power.
"Data centres are power hungry things, but with AI we're moving into a new level of power requirements," director at the Centre for Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College London Michael Bluck told the But it'll likely be a while before companies start producing SMRs at scale to meet those requirements.
"There are about 50 SMR designs out there," Bluck added. "The challenge is to build them in repeatable units, factory style, standardizing production lines." One big hurdle to still overcome is regulation. After all, nuclear energy comes with some obvious risks. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been "engaged in varying degrees of pre-application activities with several SMR designers over the past several years," per itsHowever, despite clear momentum behind the idea, it's unclear if SMRs will end up being the answer to our rapidly rising energy needs.