A month after U.S. energy regulators stalled a planned Amazon data center adjacent to a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant, a co-chair of the congressional Task Force on Artificial Intelligence is pushing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to change its tune on colocated nuclear data center campuses.
Rep. Jay Obernolte, a Republican from California, urged FERC commissioners in a Dec. 5 letter to move quickly to remove regulatory barriers preventing nuclear power plants from selling electricity directly to the data centers that developers are increasingly seeking to build alongside them...
...moreRSK: The other side of this could be that the real estate surrounding nuclear power plants may become more valuable....I mean why not build your data center next to a power plant? Data Centers have few employees and the land is probably less expensive.....for now.
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