Argentina’s president Javier Milei has said he wants the country to build nuclear reactors to power technology sectors such as artificial intelligence.

Milei unveiled a plan on 20 December to increase Argentina’s nuclear power generation and uranium mining capacity, aiming to lure technology companies that are increasingly using energy-intensive artificial intelligence to set up data centres in the country’s cooler south.

“Nuclear energy is the only source that is sufficiently efficient, abundant and rapidly scalable to cope with the development of our civilisation,” Milei said.