Rolls-Royce's plan to power artificial intelligence (AI) with its nuclear reactors could make it the UK's most valuable company, its boss has said.
The engineering firm has signed deals to provide small modular reactors (SMRs) to the UK and Czech governments to power AI-driven data centres.
AI has boomed in popularity since 2022, but the technology use lots of energy, something which has raised practical and environmental concerns.
Rolls-Royce chief executive Tufan Erginbilgic told the BBC it has the "potential" to become the UK's highest-valued company by overtaking the largest firms on the London Stock Exchange thanks to its SMR deals.
"There is no private company in the world with the nuclear capability we have. If we are not market leader globally, we did something wrong," he said.
