Nuclear reactor start-up targeting AI energy demands showcases its tech with an Nvidia DGX Spark, though the website demo needs its own power plant

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Names poached from Tolkien's works. Glossy websites, packed with animations and all kinds of promises. Slightly ludicrous tech demonstration. All the hallmarks of today's tech companies, one might think. But in the case of one nuclear power start-up, the super-slick marketing is actually a good reminder that AI's rampant hunger for energy needs can't be ignored or solved by traditional methods.

Today, Valar Atomics became the first nuclear startup to make electricity, and we did it by powering an NVIDIA Spark.This is the first meeting of advanced nuclear and AI; two technologies which will transform the next century.But that’s only the start of our collaboration. pic.twitter.com/hwa54wbFQyJuly 2, 2026

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