US nuclear reactor startup Valar Atomics is partnering with tech giant Nvidia to develop a small data centre in Utah that the companies claim will show how computing facilities needed for AI can conserve water.
California-based Valar announced the partnership at the site of its Ward 250 microreactor at the publicly-owned San Rafael Energy Laboratory in Utah.
It also ran a demonstration powering Nvidia’s Blackwell, its latest AI chip architecture for data centres. It was the first time a small reactor powered a data centre, the companies said.
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