The EU’s goal of ramping up data centre capacity is already driving more investment in nuclear energy projects as the bloc seeks to decarbonise and secure energy security at the same time, says the global investment firm.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2430150/europes-ai-demand-could-set-off-nuclear-energy-boom-says-jp-morgan

The EU’s goal of ramping up data centre capacity is already driving more investment in nuclear energy projects as the bloc seeks to decarbonise and secure energy security at the same time, says the global investment firm.

  • tardigrade@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    It will have to be seen whether the EU sees a nuclear boom, but globally we will see this I am afraid. The two countries leading the AI race at the moment definitely will: The U.S. government has reaffirmed nuclear power as a key pillar of its long-term clean energy strategy a year or so ago, with the revival previously retired reactors and extensions of aging ones.

    And China has joined a pledge to triple global nuclear energy capacity by 2050 which stemmed from the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, also known as COP28,

    … The installed [nuclear] capacity has been growing at a remarkable rate in China, the future home of just under half of the world’s nuclear reactors currently under construction … [China’s nuclear] capacity addition should accelerate [by 2030, according to China’s current five-year plan], as the State Council has been approving 10 or more new reactor units annually since 2022 …

    • Ooops@feddit.orgEnglish
      92·
      4 days ago

      but globally we will see this I am afraid.

      Yeah, that’s what the brain rot they drown you in is telling. In reality you can look up additions to electric grids globally. It’s renewables with everything else basically a rounding error.

      PS: the thing about China a good example. Look up their actual capacities. It’s a joke compared to everything else they are building. Tripling nearly nothing is still irrelevant but for pro-nuclear propaganda, which 9 out of 10 times is just a diversion to slow down renewables so our fossil overlords can make some more money a few more years.

      (for reference: China’s production capacities are at about 4% nuclear, 40% renewable; globally ~700GW in power plants were build in 2025, 85% of those solar, wind or hydro power)

      • tardigrade@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
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        4 days ago

        China itself has obliged to increase nuclear power, and fossil fuels will increase by 10% by the end of this decade. This is according to the Chinese government’s own plan. Coal will rise by the end of the decade, according to China’s official numbers.

        It’s not just a ‘rounding error’ as you say, its’ just that China is heavily dependent on fossil fuels and nuclear. This won’t likely change in the long-term. We need to produce these renewables here in Europe where environmental social standards are much a higher.

        Yeah, that’s what the brain rot they drown you in is telling.

        Thank you for this statement.

        • Ooops@feddit.orgEnglish
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          3 days ago

          its’ just that China is heavily dependent on fossil fuels and nuclear.

          On fossil fuels? Yes, specifically a lot of coal. On nuclear? No. I already told you that nuclear is only providing 4% of the produced electricity. And any planned increase is outpaced by the renewable upbuild, so the share of nuclear will actually go down even when the total capacity goes slightly up.

    • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      The U.S. government has reaffirmed nuclear power as a key pillar of its long-term clean energy strategy a year or so ago, with the revival previously retired reactors and extensions of aging ones.

      Under president Jimmy Carter, who had had a job in nuclear safety in the navy or so, a nuclear meltdown of the Three Mile Island power plant in Harrisburg was barely stopped. Actually, the core did melt down because of a lack of cooling - it just didn’t went slightly critical as in Fukushima. It might have been only twenty minutes away.

      I am pretty sure the present orange in chief can oversee a muchbetter, much bigger, MAGNIFICIENT meltdown.