Ireland is about to have a fight it has avoided for 27 years, and the thing forcing the conversation is not a power plant, a grid upgrade, or a climate target. It is the data center. The country that banned nuclear fission electricity generation in 1999 is now openly debating whether to lift that ban, and the reason can be measured in a single number: data centers consumed 23 percent of...

Valar Atomics Raises 1 Billion to Mass-Produce Nuclear Power for AI Data Centers The sentence that should stop every infrastructure operator cold: a nuclear startup that has run exactly one small experimental reactor just raised 1 billion dollars at a 6 billion dollar valuation, because AI data centers are running out of power faster than the grid can build it. Valar Atomics closed the round...