Heatmap: “All the Nuclear Workers Are Building Data Centers Now”
A conversation hosted by RFF on nuclear power is mentioned in this article about data center construction.
“’We had challenges as we were building a new supply chain for a new technology and then workforce,’ John Williams, an executive at Southern Nuclear Operating Company, which owns over 45 percent of Plant Vogtle, said in a webinar hosted by the environmental group Resources for the Future in October.
‘It had been 30 years since we had built a new nuclear plant from scratch in the United States. Our workforce didn’t have that muscle memory that they have in other parts of the world, where they have been building on a more regular frequency.’
That workforce ‘hasn’t been building nuclear plants’ since heavy construction stopped at Vogtle in 2023, he noted — but they have been busy ‘building data centers and car manufacturing in Georgia.’”
