{"id":43734,"date":"2024-01-22T20:40:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T01:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=43734"},"modified":"2024-01-22T21:11:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T02:11:38","slug":"43734","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/43734\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft takes the nuclear option for data center energy needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has appointed Erin Henderson as the new Director of Nuclear Development Acceleration, marking a significant shift in data center power strategies. Henderson, with 13 years of experience at the Tennessee Valley Authority, will lead Microsoft&#8217;s ambitious plan to use small, modular reactors and microreactors for powering data centers.<\/p>\n<p>This move aligns with Microsoft&#8217;s stated commitment to a clean and sustainable energy future.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the company collaborated with Terra Praxis, a nonprofit organization, on a generative AI model to expedite nuclear licensing and regulation processes.<\/p>\n<p>As the demand for energy by data centers increases, Microsoft&#8217;s nuclear power strategy could be a game-changer in the industry, promoting cleaner energy solutions for large-scale computing needs.<\/p>\n<p>Sources include: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacenterdynamics.com\/en\/news\/microsoft-hires-erin-henderson-to-head-nuclear-development-acceleration-for-data-centers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Center Dynamics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has appointed Erin Henderson as the new Director of Nuclear Development Acceleration, marking a significant shift in data center power strategies. Henderson, with 13 years of experience at the Tennessee Valley Authority, will lead Microsoft&#8217;s ambitious plan to use small, modular reactors and microreactors for powering data centers. This move aligns with Microsoft&#8217;s stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,9,215],"tags":[62,1242,275],"class_list":["post-43734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability","category-todays-news","category-top-stories","tag-microsoft","tag-nuclear","tag-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43738,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43734\/revisions\/43738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}