Oracle is designing a data center that will require more than a gigawatt of electricity, the company's chairman said.
The data center would be powered by three small nuclear reactors, he added.
"The location and the power place we've located, they've already got building permits for three nuclear reactors," Ellison said.
"These are the small modular nuclear reactors to power the data center.
There are currently three operational small modular reactors in the world, according to the Nuclear Energy Agency.
Persons:
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Organizations:
Oracle, CNBC, Nuclear Energy Agency, U.S
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U.S, China, Russia, Japan