The Financial Post reports in its Saturday edition that atomic energy is making a revival, thanks in part to artificial intelligence. A Financial Times dispatch to the Post reports that Big Tech is attracted to nuclear because it provides clean power for its data centres that does not suffer from intermittency, a feature of solar and wind energy. Microsoft and Google have signed long-term power deals to support the reopening of shuttered nuclear plants in Iowa and Pennsylvania. President Donald Trump has also embraced atomic energy, pledging to slash regulation and invest tens of billions of dollars to reopen and build new fleets of reactors to provide the power needed to "win" the global AI race. In May he set a goal of quadrupling U.S. atomic energy capacity by 2050, a massive undertaking that would involve building hundreds of new plants. In October Washington inked an $80-billion (U.S.) partnership with private equity group Brookfield and reactor designer Westinghouse, which aims to kick-start construction of eight large-scale nuclear plants. In 2024, Amazon bought a stake in X-energy, a reactor developer with power supply agreements to support the construction of 144 small modular reactors in the U.S. and U.K.