The latest renewable energy news includes announcements on Tencent, TerraPower, Nuclea Energy, Moltex Nuclear, and others.
Tencent Deploys 98 Percent Efficient Data Center Power Architecture as AI Rack Demand Hits 100 kW
Tencent is adapting its renewable-energy and infrastructure strategy to sharply higher electricity demand from AI computing. Its new T-AIDC data-center architecture is designed for racks consuming 30–100 kW or more, compared with approximately 6–8 kW for conventional workloads. Tencent says the architecture can achieve power-supply efficiency of up to 98 percent. AI workloads can increase rack-level electricity demand by as much as 10 times, raising requirements for cooling, power delivery and renewable-energy integration. Tencent continues to target carbon neutrality across its operations and supply chain by 2030. The company is combining higher-efficiency computing infrastructure with renewable electricity procurement and AI-based optimisation, illustrating how data-center operators are redesigning power infrastructure as generative AI changes the scale and pattern of electricity consumption.
TerraPower Selects Hyundai E&C to Build Up to Eight Natrium Nuclear Reactors
TerraPower has signed agreements with Hyundai Engineering & Construction and SK Innovation to accelerate commercial deployment of its Natrium advanced nuclear technology in the United States, South Korea and other international markets. Hyundai E&C has been selected as EPC contractor for up to eight future Natrium reactors, including completion, pricing and performance guarantees designed to improve project financeability. TerraPower and SK Innovation will also explore development of South Korea’s first commercial Natrium plant. Their cooperation includes digital twins and artificial intelligence to optimise plant operations and maintenance. TerraPower’s Natrium design combines an advanced sodium-cooled reactor with thermal-energy storage, allowing generation to respond more flexibly to changing grid demand and complement variable renewable sources such as wind and solar.
Nuclea Energy Acquires Moltex Nuclear Platform Backed by More Than C$96 Million
Nuclea Energy has agreed to acquire Moltex Energy’s advanced nuclear technology portfolio following a competitive sale process. The assets have received more than C$96 million in private and Canadian and U.S. government funding over more than a decade of development. The portfolio includes 80 granted patents across nine patent families and another nine pending patents. Technologies being acquired include Moltex’s Waste to Stable Salt nuclear-fuel recycling process, Stable Salt Reactor–Wasteburner and FLEX reactor designs. The WATSS process aims to recover usable energy and materials from spent nuclear fuel while reducing long-term radioactive-waste inventories. The acquisition gives Nuclea a vertically connected advanced-nuclear platform spanning fuel recycling, waste-burning reactors and flexible reactor technology as demand for dispatchable low-carbon electricity accelerates globally.
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