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Two companies sponsored by Bill Gates and Sam Altman increases $ 1bn between an influx of importanis info to help the power of artificial information.
Terrapower, a private company built in gates, said Wednesday that it raised $ 650mm from investors for the first time from the Fenture capital arm of the US Chipmaker Nvizia.
It follows a $ 460mn equity raising this week nor okman, listed in small modular reactors with a third or less power in the power of standard models.
The analysts say companies in a positive environment are funded with recent deals to hit Google, Meta and Microsoft with nuclear developers and government support. It pushes prices at nuclear nuclear prices with recording levels and generates momentum of private financing, they say.
Chris Livesque, the Teraprower Executive, speaks of financial funding period increased proof that nuclear technology needs to power AI.
Terrapower raises more than $ 2bn in private financing and won a $ 2bn grant from US government to co-fund the design and build In the first nuclear reactor in Kemmerer, Wyoming, cooled by liquid sodium than water.
Some existing investors, including Gates and Hdundai, a Conglomerate South Korea, also participated in the latest fundraising, Terrapower said.
“This is the fund of the surgery of the terrapower,” says Levesque, an official officer of a nuclear submarine, in an interview.
He added that the company ends in the design of this year’s plant and that the construction of kemmerer continues for more than a year.
Terrapower is in a race with other nuclear reactors who appeal like Oklo, as well as Chinese and Russian groups to be successful in commercial.
They answered an outflow of interest from technology companies and goods with reliable electrical items to fuel-starving data centers.
After two decades nearly flat growth, electricity REQUEST In the US predicted rising 25 percent of 2050, compared to 2023 levels, according to ICF understandings.
“The global increase in demand, especially by 24/7 electricity electricity industry and AI, with environmental choices,” says Adam Stein, “says Adam Stein,” says Adam Stein, “says Adam Stein,” says Adam Stein, ”
“Investment opportunities for nuclear nuclear energy developers and the related supply chains are strong today,” he said.
On Monday, Oklo said it raised $ 460mm by funds by an equity match, $ 60mn more than the company’s first guided.
Altman, an early Informer Invesor of Oklo and became the seat in 2015, down From April paper to avoid a conflict of interest before starting the Open AI conversation companies about signing an energy agreement.
Small reactor developers including Oklo, X-Energy and Newleo rose at least $ 2bn since early 2024, according to Analysis of Pubtis in Public Records and Data from Pitchbook and Bloombergnef.
