Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2025

Posted: 21st April 2025

As we remember this week the worst nuclear disaster in history, at Chornobyl in Ukraine, why the continued obsession with nuclear power? Worse, now it could be used to power huge AI data centers, but do we even need either, asks M.V. Ramana. 

The race to power data centers

One effect of the slew of propaganda about the need for nuclear to power AI has been the near silence on the question of whether such growth of data centers or AI is desirable, even though there is ample evidence of the enormous environmental impacts of developing AI and building hyperscale data centers, writes M.V. Ramana. And why are promoters ignoring the historical lessons of financial flops and failures in the new nuclear sector? READ MORE

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