Standard Power selects NuScale SMR tech to power data centres

Infrastructure as a service provider Standard Power will develop two SMR-powered facilities to power nearby data centres using NuScale Power Corporation's technology.

Based on Standard Power’s plans for the two facilities, NuScale will provide 24 units of 77MWe modules, which together will produce 1,848MWe of clean energy at sites in the US states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The facilities will be developed together with global energy development and production company ENTRA1 Energy.

In 2022, NuScale formed an exclusive partnership with ENTRA1 Energy to commercialise its SMR technology. Through this partnership, ENTRA1 Energy has the rights to develop, manage, own and operate energy production plants powered by NuScale’s approved SMR technology.

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Maxim Serezhin, Standard Power founder and CEO commented in a statement: “We see a lot of legacy baseload grid capacity going offline with a lack of new sustainable baseload generation options on the market especially as power demand for artificial intelligence (AI)-computing and data centres is growing.

"We look forward to working with ENTRA1 and NuScale to deploy NuScale’s proven SMR technology to deliver carbon-free, baseload energy to address this large gap in the generation market,” added Serezhin.

NuScale technology is the only SMR technology that has received design approval from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

NuScale’s SMR technology is scalable and can be used for various uses, including; power generation, district heating, desalination, commercial-scale hydrogen production and other process heat applications.

The power modules are fully factory-fabricated and operate with conventional nuclear fuel.

“NuScale is excited to work with our strategic partner ENTRA1 to help deliver our cost-competitive and safe SMR technology to meet Standard Power’s carbon-free energy needs,” said John Hopkins, NuScale President and Chief Executive Officer.

“By deploying our innovative NuScale SMR Technology to more consumers around the world, we’re taking an important step toward addressing the world’s enormous decarbonisation needs.”