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AI is hungry. Power is the new bottleneck.
NANO Nuclear Energy isn’t just playing the “clean energy” card anymore. It’s now trying to wedge itself into one of the hottest trades in the market: AI infrastructure. The company said it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Super Micro Computer to evaluate nuclear-powered data center setups, basically asking: what if your AI servers came with their own mini power plant?
The pitch: grid-independent compute
The two companies want to explore pairing NANO Nuclear’s KRONOS MMR Energy System with Supermicro’s AI server platforms, maintenance, and lifecycle services. In plain English: they’re testing whether microreactors could help power hyperscale, enterprise, and edge data centers without leaning so hard on the grid like every other AI buildout crowding the same electrical highway.
That matters because AI’s appetite for electricity is getting a little absurd. More compute means more chips, more cooling, more power, and more headaches for operators trying to build fast enough. If NANO can prove its tech is practical, the company could become more than a speculative nuclear name — it could become part of the AI arms race’s plumbing.
Why the stock moved
The market liked the setup. NNE shares jumped 13.09% to $25.75 on Wednesday, which tells you investors are very much willing to pay for optionality when the words “AI” and “power” appear in the same sentence.
Big picture: this is still an MOU, not a signed megadeal. But in a market obsessed with who powers the AI boom, even a partnership trial balloon can get investors leaning forward in their chairs.