Isn't saying how much they'll cost or when they'll fire up
, Oracle's founder, chair and CTO revealed the database giant and cloud provider had secured building permits for a trio of small modular reactors to power a datacenter with over a gigawatt of AI compute capacity.Unlike marine reactors, SMRs are designed to be mass produced. And unlike conventional reactor designs they won’t require massive physical infrastructure.
"Oracle has 162 cloud datacenters, live and under construction throughout the world. The largest of these datacenters is 800 megawatts, and it will contain acres of Nvidia GPU clusters able to train the world's largest AI models," Ellison told analysts on the call."Soon Oracle will begin construction of datacenters that are more than a gigawatt.
Despite their potential benefits, SMRs face considerable barriers to widespread deployment. Back in May, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysisthat SMRs were"too expensive, too slow to build, and too risky to play a significant role in transitioning away from fossil fuels."Talen Energy's Cumulus datacenter in a $650 million deal. Co-located alongside the 2.
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