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Oracle designing data center powered by nuclear reactors
- atomic128 2y agoFrom the earnings call transcript: Lawrence Joseph Ellison -- Chairman and Chief Technology Officer This race goes on forever, to build a better and better neural network. And the cost of that training gets to be astronomical. When I talk about building gigawatt or multi-gigawatt data centers, I mean these AI models, these frontier models are going to -- the entry price for a real frontier model from someone who wants to compete in that area is around $100 billion. Let me repeat, around $100 billion. Let me say something that's going to sound really bizarre. Well, you'd probably say, well, he says bizarre things all the time. So why is he announcing this one? Let's be really bizarre. So we're in the middle of designing a data center that's north of the gigawatt that has -- but we found the location and the power place. We've looked at it, they've already got building permits for three nuclear reactors. These are the small modular nuclear reactors to power the data center. This is how crazy it's getting. This is what's going on. https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2024/09/09/oracle-orcl-q1-2025-earnings-call-transcript/ https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2024/09/09/or...
- topspin 2y ago> they've already got building permits By "permits," is he claiming he has an approved nuclear site license from the NRC? If so, where is this supposed to be happening?