UK Needs More Nuclear To Power AI, Says Amazon Boss
17-05-2025 02:10 via hardware.slashdot.org

UK Needs More Nuclear To Power AI, Says Amazon Boss

In an exclusive interview with the BBC, AWS CEO Matt Garman said the UK must expand nuclear energy to meet the soaring electricity demands of AI-driven data centers. From the report: Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is part of the retail giant Amazon, plans to spend 8 billion pounds on new data centers in the UK over the next four years. Matt Garman, chief executive of AWS, told the BBC nuclear is a "great solution" to data centres' energy needs as "an excellent source of zero carbon, 24/7 power
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