{"id":464836,"date":"2025-12-22T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/464836\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:55:10","slug":"asu-will-study-microreactors-to-power-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/464836\/","title":{"rendered":"ASU will study microreactors to power data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Energy has selected <a href=\"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20251209-science-and-technology-us-department-energy-selects-asu-and-dcx-pioneer-new-ways-power\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona State University to study how microreactors can be used to address data center needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The university will be part of a team with DCX USA, which specializes in data centers and AI. The effort is being led by the Idaho National Laboratory. <\/p>\n<p>The goal is to create stand-alone sources to draw power from, reducing dependence on the traditional grid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are building a microreactor, a very small house-sized advanced reactor that is slightly larger than a garden shed and slightly smaller than a house,&#8221; said Scott Barclay, the assistant vice president for research at ASU.<\/p>\n<p>Barclay says the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure could cause data centers to draw too much power from the current grid and cause instabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cData centers are scheduled within the next three years to use about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/doe-releases-new-report-evaluating-increase-electricity-demand-data-centers\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one-eighth of all the electricity generated in the United States<\/a>, so they&#8217;ve ramped up in the last couple years,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>He says data centers tend to exist in places where they can obtain cheap electricity, such as Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Arizona State University to study how microreactors can be used to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":464837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-464836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115764509033724622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}