The Nuclear Summit at Datacloud Global Congress 2026 brought together data centre operators, energy providers, and nuclear technology developers to examine whether the sector’s most reliable low-carbon energy source can scale fast enough to meet the industry’s power demand. The finding was cautiously optimistic-with two significant caveats: community acceptance is the primary barrier, and the fuel supply chain cannot be assumed.

The data centre industry’s power problem has produced an unlikely alliance. Operators who spent a decade building procurement strategies around renewable energy power purchase agreements (PPAs) are now actively exploring nuclear as a source of baseload power that renewables cannot provide. Wind and solar are variable. AI inference workloads are persistent and power-dense.