{"id":867959,"date":"2026-08-25T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867959\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:40:09","slug":"ai-data-centre-boom-sparks-brawl-over-using-nuclear-energy-for-computing-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867959\/","title":{"rendered":"AI data centre boom sparks brawl over using nuclear energy for computing power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A political fight has broken out over using small modular nuclear reactors to meet the soaring electricity demand from data centres, and new research shows that using renewable power could make Australia a regional hub for low-carbon computing power capacity.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Coalition frontbencher Jonno Duniam said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/energy\/the-new-nuclear-option-small-safe-and-cheap-20190813-p52gr6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">using SMRs to power<\/a> data centres should be part of the conversation, and the government should end the moratorium on nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A political fight has broken out over using small modular nuclear reactors to meet the soaring electricity demand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-867959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}