Energy demands from big tech, including for AI, has elected officials giving an old power source a second look.

The jaw-dropping energy demands of AI tools has led some California companies and lawmakers to re-examine the possibility of nuclear power.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek stunned the world with the release of its R1 model, which appears to perform nearly as well as leading models from Google and OpenAI, despite the company’s claim that ...

While many factors are converging to power the current AI boom, there are two major ... Meanwhile, solar can reduce the burden on nuclear plants during daytime peaks, optimizing overall energy ...

A South Carolina utility wants to restart construction on a power plant ... buyers as nuclear power experiences a resurgence of interest fueled by skyrocketing power demand from AI data centers.

Marc Andreessen, the prolific venture capitalist known for backing Facebook, GitHub, Pinterest and Twitter in their early ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday he will approve the construction of power plants for artificial intelligence through an ...

NuScale stock has rocketed 1,175% over the past 12 months; Oklo Inc. (NYSE:OKLO), which is backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, ...

Kim Hairston / Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images ... U.S. AI industry to focus on improving efficiency, threatening to stall the surge in power demand that's propelled nuclear ...

Nuclear is still expensive relative to wind, solar, and natural gas. Plus, next-generation nuclear has yet to be tested at commercial scale. The surge in power demand from AI changed the equation.