Meta is also a big player in the data center space, with numerous data centers under construction. Microsoft is looking to add more data centers to its portfolio and is even planning to resurrect Three Mile Island to power its AI vision. These tech giants, as well as Google and Amazon, are increasingly looking to nuclear power to fulfill energy needs.
"New larger data centers are being planned to handle the huge amounts of data needed to train and implement the rapidly expanding large language models (LLMs) that underpin GenAI applications," says Gartner VP Analyst Bob Johnson. "However, short-term power shortages are likely to continue for years as new power transmission, distribution, and generation capacity could take years to come online and won’t alleviate current problems."