Could Small Modular Reactors Soon Power Data Centers?
... with their fundamentally new approach to powering data centers, become a solution to this trilemma? We discussed this with Alexander Volgin, Project Director at Rosatom Energy Projects JSC. How viable from a technological and economic perspective are SMRs (in particular, KLT-40S and RITM-200) as an energy source for energy-intensive facilities such as data centers in Russia and abroad? What scenarios are realistic in the next five to 10 years in terms of commercial and logistical efficiency? Vladimir Likhachev, Elizaveta Lihacheva: Nuclear Power and the Global South From a technological and economic perspective,...