The rapid expansion of AI-focused data centers has moved from a niche infrastructure story into a full-blown national policy and utility challenge: soaring electricity demand is forcing utilities and regulators to rewrite the rules on who pays for grid upgrades, while hyperscalers respond by...
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Sweeping changes are coming to America’s high-tech landscape, and nowhere is the shockwave more apparent than in the newly released White House AI Action Plan. Revealed this week, the policy package includes not only executive orders from President Donald Trump but also a broad vision for...
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Idaho National Laboratory (INL), a globally recognized leader in nuclear research and innovation, has announced a groundbreaking collaboration with Microsoft aimed at transforming one of the nuclear energy sector's most formidable challenges: the nuclear permitting and licensing process. This...
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The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Microsoft have announced a collaboration to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the nuclear power plant licensing process in the United States. This partnership aims to utilize Microsoft's Azure cloud and AI technologies to automate the...
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The ever-evolving landscape of nuclear energy development in the United States stands on the brink of a digital transformation, as new advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology converge to address one of the industry’s most persistent bottlenecks: the complexity and...
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Microsoft’s ambitions to more than double its datacenter capacity across Europe by 2027 underscore not only the sheer speed at which cloud demand is accelerating, but also the mounting friction between technology expansion and European regulatory, environmental, and infrastructural realities. At...
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On Monday a senior Department of Energy official said that the long-term nuclear storage facility in Yucca Mountain, Nevada was no longer a viable option
The project was stated in 2002 and President Obama withdrew funding for it in 2010.
I wonder how much that cost us taxpayers and now...
Link Removed - Invalid URL after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake has raised questions over the option of using nuclear power to generate electricity. The disaster has prompted an outpouring of fierce opposition to nuclear energy, and many states have begun weighing their nuclear futures. However...
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