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US startup joins nuclear alliance to power Virginia's data center boom
US startup Nano Nuclear Technology has joined a Virginia-based consortium to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) for powering hyperscale data centres. The alliance addresses the massive power demands of AI infrastructure and cloud computing facilities that grid electricity cannot reliably supply.
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The Wire takeaway
If you're building an AI company that needs to scale compute, the bottleneck just shifted from GPU supply to power supply—and nuclear is now the proven answer Virginia's buyers are betting on. Your site location and power contract terms now determine whether you can train at scale.
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Topics: AI Infrastructure · Cloud Infrastructure · nuclear-power · data-centers · smr-deployment · ai-infrastructure · energy-security