Google just agreed to buy up to half the electricity from an entire nuclear power plant in Finland. Not a small deal either, this is a record 13 billion euro investment, Google's biggest ever in Europe.
Why nuclear? AI data centers need constant, always-on power. Not the kind of power that fluctuates with weather conditions.
Solar and wind are great, but they're intermittent. Nuclear gives you a steady baseload of Compute fuel, exactly what AI training and inference demand around the clock.
Here's the Trade-off: locking into a single long-term power source gives Google price stability and guaranteed supply, but it also means betting big on one location for years to come.
It also raises a bigger question for the rest of us. When a tech giant buys half a country's nuclear output, what happens to everyone else sharing that grid? Worth discussing.
🔗 Original Source & Reference: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r6y4me2g6o
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