US AI data centers and deployment challenges for small modular reactors: proposed regulatory policy recommendations

IF 2.6 4区 管理学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Thomas A Hemphill
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Global demand by cloud vendors, financial institutions, and telecommunication companies for commercially owned and operated data centers is accelerating in recent years. Given this increase in energy supply required to meet US artificial intelligence (AI) technology consumer demand, the paper addresses state-of-the-art traditional data centers and their capacity transition to process AI technologies. Subsequently, the paper explains the potential for small modular (nuclear) reactors—and specifically a subset, micro modular reactors (MMRs)—to generate the increasing energy demanded for AI processing capabilities, including the potential of quantum computing, through 2035 and beyond. Lastly, the paper identifies a primary regulatory policy challenge—the federal regulatory construction review/permitting process—that hinders an environmentally sustainable source of nuclear energy to power such AI data centers and offers policy recommendations to assist in meeting this federal regulatory policy challenge and encourages the deployment of MMR technologies.
美国人工智能数据中心和小型模块化反应堆的部署挑战:拟议监管政策建议
近年来,云计算供应商、金融机构和电信公司对商业拥有和运营的数据中心的全球需求正在加速增长。鉴于满足美国人工智能(AI)技术消费需求所需的能源供应增加,本文探讨了最先进的传统数据中心及其向处理人工智能技术过渡的能力。随后,本文解释了小型模块化(核)反应堆--特别是其中的一个子集--微型模块化反应堆(MMR)--在 2035 年及以后产生人工智能处理能力所需的越来越多能源的潜力,包括量子计算的潜力。最后,本文指出了一个主要的监管政策挑战--联邦监管建设审查/许可程序--它阻碍了环境上可持续的核能来源为此类人工智能数据中心供电,并提出了政策建议,以协助应对这一联邦监管政策挑战,鼓励部署 MMR 技术。
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期刊介绍: Science and Public Policy is a leading refereed, international journal on public policies for science, technology and innovation, and on their implications for other public policies. It covers basic, applied, high, low, and any other types of S&T, and rich or poorer countries. It is read in around 70 countries, in universities (teaching and research), government ministries and agencies, consultancies, industry and elsewhere.
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