Australia urged to embrace nuclear power as data centres demand ‘reliable’ energy

Nuclear for Australia Founder Will Shackel discusses the need to harness nuclear energy to help power “energy-hungry” data centres.

“We need to be looking at all clean sources of energy, including nuclear power, which is being used around the world to help power data centres,” Mr Shackel told Sky News Australia.

“Meta, Google, and OpenAI are entering deals to use nuclear power plants to power their data centres because they are so energy hungry.

“They need a reliable, clean energy supply, and nuclear power is really well positioned to provide that.”