She didn’t rule out the possibility of using nuclear energy in countries like Japan.
Other tech titans including Microsoft and Amazon.com are already betting on nuclear energy as a source of stable, low-carbon power to meet skyrocketing electricity demand from their data centers, while also reducing dependence on fossil fuels to slash emissions.
Microsoft has agreed to purchase power from the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, while Amazon recently bought a nuclear-powered data center in the same US state.
For Google, having round-the-clock energy that isn’t intermittent is “critically important as we think about long-term growth”, Corio said.
