Google to use SMRs for its AI data centres

The advance of AI and its need for large data centres brings with it a serious energy problem for companies. For this reason, Google has reached an agreement with Kairos Power to build seven Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) by 2030, reaching a total capacity of 500 MW of greenhouse gas emission-free electricity, thus supporting the US government's energy policy of having a sustainable energy mix.

This technology company is following in the footsteps of Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle, so the future of nuclear fission power is indisputably linked to SMRs. These reactors have been under development for more than two decades and some of them are being designed according to the principles and requirements established for fourth-generation nuclear fission equipment.

The main reasons for opting for this type of reactor are that the investment cost is much lower than for higher power reactors, their safety and reliability are guaranteed, they require less fuel, they are modular in construction and they are small in size.