South Korea’s AI boom could need 20 new nuclear reactors’ worth of power
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South Korea expects artificial intelligence, and the chip fabs feeding it, to add between 25 and 30 gigawatts to national electricity demand, which by the country’s own reactor standards is roughly 20 nuclear plants. The government now has to decide whether to build them. The figure comes from Kim…
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- 2026-09-08 09:39 · The Next Web
South Korea’s AI boom could need 20 new nuclear reactors’ worth of power