U.S. Department of Energy

In a recent interview with Axios, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said that she is actively exploring nuclear power plant solutions to alleviate the electricity demand of AI data centers. Granholm said that the development of AI in the United States is not a problem in itself, and AI can help humans solve many problems. But the key to the problem is that the rapid development of AI has exceeded the carrying capacity of the national power grid, and the existing power grid cannot support the rapid expansion of AI data centers. According to reports, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has been working with Microsoft, Google, and...