California-based Valar announced the partnership in Utah at the site of its small nuclear plant called a microreactor. It also ran a demonstration powering Nvidia's Blackwell, its latest AI chip architecture for data centers. It was the first time a small reactor powered a data center, the companies said.

July 1 : Valar Atomics, a nuclear power startup, said on Wednesday it is partnering with Nvidia to develop a small data center in Utah that the companies claim will show how…

Valar Atomics ran an Nvidia Blackwell AI chip off a nuclear microreactor on July 1, 2026, a US first backed by $450M in funding at a $2B valuation.

California-based Valar announced the partnership in Utah at the site of its small nuclear plant called a microreactor. It also ran a demonstration powering Nvidia's Blackwell,…

Start-up Valar says small nuclear reactors can be used with closed-loop cooling systems to reduce data centre power, water needs

Will this solve the AI boom’s power and water bottlenecks?

In den USA entwickeln mehrere Startups Atomreaktoren. Valar Atomics hat als erstes von ihnen gezeigt, dass sein System funktioniert.

In the USA, several startups are developing atomic reactors. Valar Atomics is the first of them to show that its system works.

Valar Atomics ha alimentato per la prima volta negli Stati Uniti un chip NVIDIA Blackwell utilizzando l'elettricit� prodotta da un reattore nucleare sperimentale. L'azienda e…