AI Demand Drives U.S. Nuclear Comeback as Bitcoin Miners Led Early Adoption

Nuclear power is drawing fresh attention in the United States as AI workloads and expanding data centers increase demand for reliable, large-scale electricity. TheEnergyMag’s Miner Weekly highlights recent annual filings in which utilities and power producers tie a U.S.

“nuclear renaissance” to long-term power contracts with AI hyperscalers such as Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms. Rather than relying solely on renewable energy credits, some hyperscalers are now supporting entire nuclear facilities to secure around-the-clock, carbon-free electricity.

Bitcoin miners were among the first to colocate high-performance computing beside large baseload sources, seeing early on that nuclear — once viewed as declining — could serve as critical infrastructure for intensive computing. One example is TeraWulf’s 2021 joint venture with Talen Energy to build the Nautilus Cryptomine adjacent to the Susquehanna nuclear plant, designed to draw power directly from the facility.

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