{"id":993663,"date":"2026-02-19T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993663"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:41:57","slug":"data-centres-consider-backing-uranium-projects-nexgen-ceo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/data-centres-consider-backing-uranium-projects-nexgen-ceo-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centres consider backing uranium projects, NexGen CEO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian uranium developer NexGen Energy has held preliminary talks with data centre providers about securing finance for a new mine that could supply fuel for power plants needed for artificial intelligence, its CEO said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Soaring demand for AI is driving a massive build-out of power-hungry data centres, in turn boosting the need for \u200cnew generation capacity, \u2060including nuclear \u2060plants that will require uranium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian uranium developer NexGen Energy has held preliminary talks with data centre providers about securing finance for a new mine that could supply fuel for power plants needed for artificial intelligence, its CEO said on Wednesday. Soaring demand for AI is driving a massive build-out of power-hungry data centres, in turn boosting the need for \u200cnew generation capacity, \u2060including nuclear \u2060plants that will require uranium.<\/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-993663","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\/993663","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=993663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}