The rapidly expanding data center sector, with a voracious appetite for electricity, increasingly has been embracing renewable energy as the most viable path for expanding data-processing capacity while reducing carbon footprints.
The power and water consumption of data centers—as well as the noise generated by the operations—have fueled NIMBY backlash in many locations as the industry's footprint expands.
Now comes a project that offers a unique solution to these issues—an alternative electricity source that doesn't burn fossil fuels and a location that is probably NIMBY-proof: a new data center player and one of the largest US utilities are teaming to put a data center in the back yard of nuclear power plant.
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