According to Reuters,Meta The latest tech giant to focus on nuclear energy became the latest tech giant to focus on nuclear energy when it was announced Tuesday local time that it is seeking nuclear energy developers to submit proposals to support its artificial intelligence and environmental goals. More and more tech giants are looking at the potential of atomic energy as demand for electricity is expected to surge.
Meta said it plans to start in the early 2030s toUSArise 1 to 4 GWNuclear power generationquantitative (science)The capacity of a standard nuclear power plant in the United States, by comparison, is about 1 gigawatt. By comparison, a standard nuclear power plant in the United States has a generating capacity of about 1 GW.
In a statement, the company said, "We believe that nuclear energy will play a critical role in achieving a cleaner, more reliable, and diverse grid transformation."
According to Goldman Sachs' estimates, U.S. data center power demandProjected to triple between 2023 and 2030The time will then be required toApprox. 47 GWof new generating capacity.
However, relying on nuclear energy to quickly meet surging demand for electricity will not be easy, as companies will need to contend with the difficult issues of a heavy workload at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, potentially limited supplies of uranium fuel, and local opposition.
Meta says it is looking for developers with experience in community communications, program development and licensing, and will consider adopting thesmall modular reactor（Meta also revealed that developers have until February 7, 2025 to submit proposals.
act in accordance withAIAs previously reported, last November, Sergei Edunov, Meta's Director of Generative AI Engineering, shared his predictions for AI reasoning demand at the Silicon Valley Digital Workers Forum. He believes that the new global demand for AI application reasoning in 2024, if usedReasonable sizeThe language model of justElectricity generation from two nuclear power plantsIt will suffice.