Palantir and The Nuclear Company Partner on Platform to Scale Nuclear Deployment

Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR) saw its stock hit record highs today after announcing a product partnership with The Nuclear Company, a builder of nuclear power plants in the U.S.
The news comes as demand for clean power ….

Deloitte Reports on Nuclear Power and the HPC-AI Data Center Energy Gap

Even as the HPC-AI sector cheers on more powerful chips, denser servers, faster fabrics, bigger memory and mammoth, multi-hundreds of billion-dollar AI data centers, a voice is whispering ….

‘Plug, Baby, Plug’: France to Use Nuclear Power to Expand AI Computing Capacity

A country with deep nuclear power resources, France plans to dedicate a gigawatt of it (the power generated by 294 utility-scale wind turbines)  for an artificial intelligence computing project that rivals the Stargate project announced last month ….

Nuclear Power: X-Energy Closes $700M Round for SMR Development

ROCKVILLE, Md., February 6, 2025 – X-Energy Reactor Company, LLC (“X-energy”), a leader in advanced nuclear reactor and fuel technology, today announced the closing of its upsized Series C-1 financing round of $700 million. Segra Capital Management, Jane Street, Ares Management funds, Emerson Collective, and others join the previously announced round anchored by Amazon.com, Inc.’s […]

HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LANL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers

The HPC-AI world was upended last week by DeepSeek AI benchmark numbers, as the dust settles we offer commentary on what it may, at this stage, mean: Five lessons from DeepSeek, Intel GPU rack scale architecture ….

HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240826: Hot Chips, NM Senate Race and LANL, Underground Nuclear Power for AI, AMD Buys ZT Systems

Good August morning to you! We offer a quick (5:32) round-up of HPC-AI news: Hot Chips 2024, LANL exascale power needs enters NM politics, underground nuclear power for AI, AMD-ZT Systems deal