(URANIUM) GAME ON AS WALL STREET BACKS NUCLEAR! 14 HUGE GLOBAL BANKS, including Goldman Sachs, backing drive to TRIPLE GLOBAL OUTPUT by 2050!
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Wall Street is throwing its support behind nuclear energy.
Some 14 banks, including Goldman Sachs, are backing a drive to help triple global nuclear energy supply.
Tech giants including Microsoft are also turning to nuclear energy to help power data centers.
14 of the world's largest financial institutions, including US giants Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America, announced on Monday they would throw their support behind an effort to triple the world's nuclear energy capacity by 2050.
The banks, which also include Citi, Barclays and BNP Paribas have not said what steps they will take to help achieve this goal.
However, their involvement could be crucial in helping meet the emissions target laid out in last year's COP28 climate conference and revive the nuclear energy sector.
The announcement, held at the Rockefeller Center during New York's Climate Week event, saw the financial institutions express support for growing nuclear power generation and expanding the broader nuclear industry.
James Schaefer of Guggenheim Securities said in a press release: "New nuclear power is both clean and safe, and more importantly proven. It is essential that we accelerate the progression of planned projects into plants on the ground given the huge demand coming down the line for data centers and AI technologies. This will require nuclear companies, plant owners, data center and technology companies, together with banks and financial institutions to collaborate closely."
The 25 nations endorsing the Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy include the US, Canada, France, Japan, Korea, Sweden, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates and the UK.
Once considered the future of clean energy, nuclear power has declined in popularity in recent decades due to governments' reluctance to back expensive infrastructure projects, concerns about its environmental impact, and other factors such as competition from cheap natural gas in the US.
Declining output
Nuclear accounted for a quarter of Germany's electricity production until 2011, but a change in government policy meant all its plants were shut down by last year.
Nuclear's share of global electricity production dropped to its lowest level since the 1980s last year, per the World Nuclear Industry Status Report.
That might soon change, and it's not just Wall Street getting more interested in nuclear power. Big Tech is also increasingly throwing its support behind the technology, as companies seek to power AI systems and data centers while cutting back their carbon emissions.
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