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☆ Big Tech's AI bets are driving a nuclear renaissance. Not everyone is buying the hype.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-30 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Big Tech is investing in nuclear power to meet AI data center energy demands. While VC interest in nuclear startups is growing, startups face key bottlenecks. The generative AI boom has made nuclear power a major new obsession for Big Tech. Some industry watchers aren't fully convinced that it should be — or that nuclear startups will be able to capitalize on the hype. It's part of the reason investment in nuclear energy startups has fluctuated over the past five years.

Persons: aren't, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Big, Jill McArdle, they've, " McArdle, McArdle, Wally McNamee, Corbis, Guillaume Sarlat, Matthew Blain, Blain, Nicolas Heuzé, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, David Ulevitch, Elisabeth Rizzotti Organizations: Big Tech, Microsoft, Constellation Energy, Google, Kairos, Goldman, Fuels, Getty Images Venture, Axeleo, Voyager Ventures, Energy, SpaceX Locations: France, Paris

☆ Newcleo's Elisabeth Rizzotti tells BI about the startup's aim to become Europe's leading nuclear juggernaut and IPO
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-26 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The startup, Europe's only nuclear unicorn, is riding a wave of Big Tech interest in nuclear energy. A three-year-old startup is banking on molten lead and radioactive waste to fuel a nuclear energy renaissance driven by the tech world's demand for abundant and clean power. Tech giants such as Google and Amazon have been pivoting to nuclear energy sources to power data centers, which in turn power AI applications. Related stories"One of our most relevant business models is supporting the industrial sector, in providing them energy locally," Rizzotti said. "Once we obtain these two milestones, in our opinion, we could be ready to go public," she told BI.

Persons: Elisabeth Rizzotti, Newcleo, Rizzotti, It's Organizations: Big Tech, Tech, Google, Microsoft, Energy, Royce, European Industrial Alliance, Reactors, Pi, Tosto, Viaro Energy Locations: Paris, France

☆ Caitlin Clark: The reasons for and against the WNBA star’s exclusion from the Team USA Olympic roster
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Matias Grez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —USA Basketball’s decision to omit Caitlin Clark from the Olympic roster was initially met with some shock. However, USA Basketball has made a “terrible decision,” according to CNN Sport analyst Christine Brennan, by omitting a phenomenon like Clark from the roster. Breanna Stewart, a two-time WNBA champion, Brittney Griner, a nine-time All Star and A’ja Wilson, a two-time MVP, have all represented Team USA at an Olympic Games before. “She’s the biggest thing in sports, not just women’s basketball in the United States,” Brennan said of why Clark should be included. With or without Clark, Team USA is the overwhelming favorite to win gold in Paris and continue its unbeaten Olympic record stretching back to 1992.

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