South Korea to Speed Nuclear Push to Meet Surging Power Demand
THE SO WHAT
When a G20 government accelerates nuclear build times explicitly to feed AI demand, power becomes a first-class strategic constraint for compute-heavy businesses. If AI is core to your roadmap, you should be in active conversation with cloud providers and local utilities about long-term power availability, not just GPU reservations.
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