{"id":1038803,"date":"2026-09-26T08:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038803"},"modified":"2026-09-26T08:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:04:57","slug":"regulation-and-cost-deter-ais-n-power-growth-depite-4-6-billion-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/26\/regulation-and-cost-deter-ais-n-power-growth-depite-4-6-billion-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulation and cost deter AI&#8217;s N-power growth depite $4.6 billion push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investors have poured $4.6 billion into US nuclear startups so far this year, up from $3.8 billion raised in 2025, according to Crunchbase. <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re betting that deep-pocketed tech firms desperate for power will pay higher prices for carbon-free electricity that&#8217;s available around the clock. The key question is when those big checks will yield actual steel and concrete power plants. <\/p>\n<p>Demand for electricity is climbing, especially from data centres. However, there are only two new commercial reactors under construction in the US and Canada and no other such projects have received approval from regulators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investors have poured $4.6 billion into US nuclear startups so far this year, up from $3.8 billion raised in 2025, according to Crunchbase. They&#8217;re betting that deep-pocketed tech firms desperate for power will pay higher prices for carbon-free electricity that&#8217;s available around the clock. The key question is when those big checks will yield actual steel and concrete power plants. Demand for electricity is climbing, especially from data centres. However, there are only two new commercial reactors under construction in the US and Canada and no other such projects have received approval from regulators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038824,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038803\/revisions\/1038824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}