The future of energy in the developed world is nuclear. Be it the existing and increasingly safe and efficient fission reactors or the always-forty-years-away fusion reactors, the necessary advances in energy density can only come from nuclear power. Every year, our lifestyles become more reliant on technology, every year that technology becomes more and more energy-hungry, and the "renewable" resources touted by the left just plain won't keep up.
Even tech giant Google has seen the writing on the wall, and is helping to underwrite three new nuclear power projects.
Google on Wednesday announced that it will help support Elementl Power with an investment into the power producer’s development of three advanced nuclear sites.
Google will "provide early-stage capital to help Elementl Power prepare three potential sites in the U.S. for advanced nuclear projects," it said in a blog post.
The tech giant will get the "option for commercial off-take" from the three advanced nuclear projects after Elementl has constructed and begun generating power at the sites, according to Google and Elementl Power.
Google's data centers are bottomless pits for energy, and as more and more outfits start building AI centers, the need for reliable, constant energy and plenty of it will only increase. Google clearly knows this; this isn't the first such deal they have made.
The agreement between Google and Elementl Power comes approximately five months after the tech giant signed a deal with another nuclear energy company.
Through that deal, Google will purchase nuclear energy from "multiple" small modular reactors that Kairos Power is developing. Those reactors "will be sited in relevant service territories to supply clean energy electricity to Google data centers" starting in 2030, Kairos Power said at the time.
These new nuclear projects already have a built-in customer: Google. If there's any company that has reason to be concerned about having access to reliable energy - lots of reliable energy - it's the big tech companies like Google.
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Google isn't alone in this. Microsoft has entered into similar agreements.
This is all to the good. Not only is nuclear power efficient, it's growing safer by the day. The development of small modular reactors - SMRs - has enormous potential not only to provide clean, reliable power, but also to provide that power to small, remote communities. Furthermore, it could be a key component of a national security issue: Decentralizing our power grid.
Nuclear power is the future of energy. At present, in the United States, roughly a fifth of our electricity is generated using nuclear power. We should - must - be ramping that up, to half, to three-fourths, and more. It's the next inevitable phase if we are to continue to develop our technological lifestyle; it's the next historic increase in energy density that will kick-start human development, like every increase in energy density before it.
If the private sector, companies like Google and Microsoft, want to get in on the ground floor of this revolution, so much the better.
It's as I've been saying and writing for years: We solve today's problems with tomorrow's technology. Advances in nuclear power are giving us these solutions right now. We, as a nation, should be enthusiastically moving forward to embrace this historic new advance in energy density.
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