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Data Centres / Existing Nuclear Power Plants Can ‘Significantly Reduce Costs And Delays’

By David Dalton
23 July 2024

Colocation can be mutually beneficial as world looks for energy to power digital age, says paper

Existing Nuclear Power Plants Can ‘Significantly Reduce Costs And Delays’
AWS aims to develop a 960 MW data centre campus on a site in Pennsylvania which gets its power from the neighbouring Susquehanna nuclear station. Courtesy Linxon.
Colocating new data centres with existing nuclear power plants can significantly reduce project costs and delays by eliminating the need for new transmission infrastructure and grid interconnection studies, according to a paper by the US Nuclear Energy Institute.

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