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“ We see what they bring to the table, and we all intend for these facilities to be nuclear-backed one day, when the regulatory and other elements come together and we’ re able to rely on those systems,” Rhea says.“ It’ s a perfect sort of partnership of they do what we don’ t and we do what they don’ t.”
The companies are developing a joint venture that would combine expertise in land development, municipal services deployment and nuclear operations to create parks that transition from natural gas to nuclear power as regulatory frameworks permit.
Navigating the data centre industry’ s community engagement challenges Rhea identifies what she calls a marketing problem within the data centre industry. Communities increasingly view data centres as isolated consumers of water and energy that provide limited local employment despite tax revenue contributions.
“ We have historically, and you see this tremendously in Loudoun County( Virginia), and now certainly in Phoenix, built data centres that the community saw as isolated water and energy takers that didn’ t provide a lot of jobs,” says Rhea. datacentremagazine. com 65