Microsoft is considering using small nuclear reactors and microreactors to power its data centres as the company looks to shore up clean energy supply in response to growing demand for AI services, an Australia-based spokesperson has explained.
At the end of September, Microsoft published a job ad on its corporate careers web page for a principal program manager for nuclear technology to lead a global small modular rector (SMR) and microreactor strategy.
Specifically, the advertisment sought a program manager in the US who would lead the “technical assessment for the integration of SMR and microreactors to power the data centres that the Microsoft Cloud and AI reside on”.
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