After many years of big tech companies in Silicon Valley drinking the kool-aid of the climate change apocalypse, they are now suddenly waking up to two unavoidable realities.

First, the next generation of tech products will require much more energy to produce. And second, wind and solar aren’t scalable to come anywhere near meeting their AI energy needs.

We have previously reported on Microsoft lining up to buy the power from a rebooted Three Mile Island. A week later, Google put in a big order for modular reactors. Now Amazon joins the nuclear party:

The molten salt reactor piece of this specifically caught our attention. This technology may prove smaller, and cheaper to build and run — a game changer, as we have argued.

The Big Tech companies and their data centers are simply too power-hungry to risk their mission-critical applications to renewables. They are betting big on nuclear and – just maybe – they will have enough influence to get regulatory approvals.