For decades, nuclear energy has been verboten for American consumers as war on fossil fuels has driven energy prices skyward for American consumers. Now Technocrats are demanding nuclear power to fuel their humongous data centers. Don’t get you hopes that you will ever see one erg of that energy as they are building separate and exclusive power grids for themselves. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.
At the CERAWeek conference in Houston, Amazon, Google, Occidental, and Japan’s IHI Corp pledged to help triple global nuclear energy capacity by 2050, according to Reuters.
“We are truly at the beginning of a new industry,” said U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
The World Nuclear Association (WNA) expects more support for the pledge from maritime, aviation, and oil and gas industries in the coming months. This builds on a 2023 commitment by over 30 countries to triple nuclear capacity by 2050.
Nuclear energy, generating 9% of global electricity from 439 reactors, is increasingly attractive for power-hungry data centers, with Big Tech signing billion-dollar utility deals.
Reuters reported that uranium oxide prices hit a 16-year high in early 2024 due to supply concerns and rising demand, following COVID-19 disruptions. Supply remains tight, with Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia producing two-thirds of global uranium in 2022, according to WNA.
As of early 2025, 411 nuclear reactors operated worldwide with a combined 371-gigawatt capacity. Amazon, investing over $1 billion in nuclear projects, is exploring small modular reactors, while Meta and Google are also considering the emerging technology.
We’ve been following the story since late last year. We wrote back in early November that Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told Meta workers that plans to build an AI data center powered by nuclear energy were scrapped after rare bees were discovered on the proposed site.
But by December it looked like things could be back on track, according to reporting from Axios, who noted first that Meta is joining industry heavyweights like Amazon and Google in exploring nuclear energy as a zero-carbon solution.
And as we have continued to report, accelerating power demand growth from AI data centers has sparked a nuclear power revival in the US:
Patrick Wood is a leading and critical expert on Sustainable Development, Green Economy, Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda and historic Technocracy. He is the author of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation (2015) and co-author of Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II (1978-1980) with the late Antony C. Sutton.
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