Bill Gates' nuclear energy company, TerraPower, has partnered with Sabey Data Centers to develop a data center powered by nuclear energy. The project aims to provide a reliable and carbon-free source of power for data centers, which are increasingly demanding more energy to support the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and other compute-intensive workloads.
The data center will be located in Washington state and will be powered by a TerraPower-designed nuclear reactor. The reactor will provide enough energy to power the data center, which will be designed to support high-density computing and AI workloads.
Gates believes that nuclear power can play a critical role in supporting the growth of AI and other emerging technologies. He argues that traditional energy sources, such as fossil fuels, are not sustainable and that nuclear power can provide a reliable and carbon-free alternative.
The partnership between TerraPower and Sabey Data Centers marks an important step towards developing a more sustainable and reliable energy infrastructure for data centers. As AI continues to grow and evolve, the demand for energy-efficient and sustainable data centers will only continue to increase.