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Environment
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Artificial intelligence nuclear power a costly combo - Caught on Camera

A report warns against the use of small nuclear reactors to power Australia's data centres. (Christopher Hopkins/AAP PHOTOS)

Powering Australia's growing network of data centres with small nuclear reactors could cost between $6 billion and $11 billion more a year than using solar power, a study has found.

The technology could also take decades to deploy in Australia as no small modular reactors had been built successfully using a mass-production model.

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