{"id":26637,"date":"2025-01-13T14:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T06:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=26637"},"modified":"2025-01-13T14:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T06:46:51","slug":"%e8%8b%b1%e5%9b%bd%e6%8e%a2%e7%b4%a2%e5%b0%86%e6%a0%b8%e8%83%bd%e7%94%a8%e4%ba%8e-ai-%e6%95%b0%e6%8d%ae%e4%b8%ad%e5%bf%83%e5%bb%ba%e8%ae%be%e8%ae%a1%e5%88%92%ef%bc%8c%e4%b8%ba%e6%ad%a4%e5%bb%ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/26637.html","title":{"rendered":"UK explores plans to use nuclear energy for AI data centers by creating dedicated \"AI growth zones\" for the purpose."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg reported today that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%8b%b1%e5%9b%bd\" title=\"[Sees articles with [British] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >U.K.<\/a>Specialized areas are planned to build<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%95%b0%e6%8d%ae%e4%b8%ad%e5%bf%83\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [data center]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Data Center<\/a>and explore<strong>use<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%a0%b8%e8%83%bd\" title=\"[Sees articles with [nuclear] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >nuclear energy<\/a>Provision of electricity to these areas<\/strong>that to facilitate the development of technology and the AI ecosystem by.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26638\" title=\"839ee50bj00sq0lg0001yd000si00lep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/839ee50bj00sq0lg0001yd000si00lep.jpg\" alt=\"839ee50bj00sq0lg0001yd000si00lep\" width=\"1026\" height=\"770\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These \"AI Growth Areas\" will offer<strong>Easier power supply and planning approval process for data centers<\/strong>The first such zone will be established at Culham, the home of the UK Atomic Energy Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The UK government will also set up an energy committee of public and private sector officials to look at ways to<strong>Utilization of small modular nuclear reactors<\/strong>Powering data centers, these reactors rely on nuclear fission technology to generate electricity. With the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [AI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI<\/a> The energy consumption of technology is rising and the global demand for energy supply is growing.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is part of a wider policy framework - which aims to apply AI technology to public services, expand supercomputing projects and attract more skilled people to work in the U.K. Vantage Data Centers has said that as part of the plan, it will be investing Vantage Data Centers said it would invest more than 12 billion pounds (note: currently about 107.842 billion yuan) in a number of data centers in the UK as part of the program. Another company, Nscale, said it plans to invest $2.5 billion (currently about RMB18.372 billion) over the next three years.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. plans to set up special zones to build data centers and explore using nuclear energy to power them in a bid to boost technology development and the artificial intelligence ecosystem, Bloomberg reported today. The first of these \"AI growth zones,\" which will provide easier access to electricity and planning approvals for data centers, will be set up in Culham, home to the U.K.'s Atomic Energy Authority. The U.K. government will also set up an energy committee made up of public and private sector officials to look at how data centers can be powered by small modular nuclear reactors, which rely on nuclear fission technology to generate electricity. As the energy consumption of the latest AI technologies continues to rise, so does the global demand for energy supply. The program is part of a broader policy framework<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[411,2231,5523,552],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-26637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-2231","tag-5523","tag-552"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26637"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=26637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}