Google has signed an agreement to buy power from small modular nuclear reactors, in a move the company has described as a "world first". The deal with the start-up Kairos Power will help Google meet the increasing demand for electricity created by artificial intelligence. Driven by artificial intelligence, data center demand is rising at a pace the grid was never designed to accommodate. data centers consumed. Big tech companies are looking to nuclear energy to fuel the data centres that power AI. Kraken is the AI software that manages this grid, and Octopus has decided to sell it separately to other energy utilities.