Samsung to invest up to $100 million in Kairos Power, which is building a nuclear reactor for Google's data centers
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SI is driving the construction not only of data centers but of dedicated nuclear plants of a new type.
Samsung C&T, which has built about a dozen reactors around the world, will put in $70 million in cash, with the rest in engineering services. Kairos is building the Hermes 2 demonstration reactor, rated at 50 MW, cooled with fluoride salts and fueled by TRISO; startup is expected in 2030. Under its agreement with Google, the company is to supply about 0.5 GW to Google's data centers by 2035.
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