3 Nuclear Stocks Powering the AI Revolution

2025-07-16 05:00:00 ET

The artificial intelligence (AI) boom has a dirty little secret: The technology is an energy hog of epic proportions. Training an advanced frontier large language model can consume as much electricity as 1,000 U.S. homes use in a year, depending on model size and run time. As Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) , Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) , and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) race to build ever-larger AI systems, they're hitting a wall that has nothing to do with computing power -- it's the electrical grid.

The math is brutal. Data centers already consume 2% of global electricity. With AI workloads growing exponentially, that could hit 8% by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency. Wind and solar can't scale fast enough. Natural gas would derail climate commitments. That leaves one option tech companies once shunned: nuclear fission. Until fusion becomes reality -- still decades away despite recent breakthroughs -- splitting atoms is the only proven technology that can deliver massive, reliable, carbon-free baseload power.

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