Microsoft has announced an 'AI for nuclear' collaboration with Nvidia, to provide end-to-end tools that streamline permitting, accelerate design, and optimise operations across the industry.
"The world is racing to meet a historic surge in power demand with an infrastructure pipeline built for the analogue age," Darryl Willis, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Energy and Resources Industry, Microsoft, said in a blog post. "Driven by the exponential expansion of digital technologies and the reindustrialisation of supply chains, the mandate for always-on, carbon-free power is urgent and absolute. Nuclear energy is the essential backbone for this future, but the industry remains trapped in a delivery bottleneck. Before a shovel even hits the dirt, critical projects are slowed by highly customised engineering, fragmented data, and mountains of manual regulatory review."
Tech giant Microsoft said it has formed a collaboration with multinational technology company Nvidia to provide a set of technologies that "bring disciplined engineering to the entire lifecycle of a nuclear plant - spanning site permitting, design, construction, and continuous operations.
Under the new collaboration, New York-based Everstar - an Nvidia Inception startup - brings domain-specific AI for nuclear to Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform.
