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Stargate will use solar and batteries to power $100B AI venture


Solar farms can be completed far faster than nuclear reactors and natural gas power plants.

The growth in cloud computing and AI in recent years has sent developers and tech companies scurrying to secure power. Data center operator Switch announced an agreement in December with Oklo, the Sam Altman-baked small modular reactor company, for 12 gigawatts of capacity. The fresh crop of nuclear startups were largely founded to overcome those hurdles by modularizing and mass producing reactor components.

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