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As Mr McNamara says, "This innovation allows for the full fermentation process, enhancing flavour profiles without significant alcohol content." Some brewers want to keep their techniques secret. Bill Shufelt and John Walker, founders of US-based Athletic Brewing Company, which launched in the UK in 2022, are cagey about their process, other than to state that they don't remove or add any ingredients, making a fully fermented no-alcohol product. Mr Shufelt says, "We decided to do it using a totally different process to everyone else." The pair deemed their approach unique enough to justify having their own breweries.
Data centres already used huge amounts of electricity, but AI is significantly increasing their power consumption All of this points to a problem. How can AI grow when it requires so much more power to function? Demanding ever more juice Binance App Users Data from the existing grid means competing with homes and other industries, and is not going to win the data centre sector any friends if blackouts result. "Our industry has to find another source of power," Mr Sharp declares. He reckons that is nuclear. More pressingly, he predicts that data centres in the not too distant future will come with their own dedicated, built-in nuclear reactors. The technology in question is the much-touted Small Modular Reactor (SMR).
These are designs for advanced reactors with about a third of the power generation of a traditional, large nuclear plant. While there are currently no SMRs in commercial operation around the world, China is building the world's first, and similar technology is already used by nuclear-powered submarines. Meanwhile, universities, such as the UK's Imperial College London, have for years operated small nuclear reactors for teaching and training purposes. Imperial's own reactor, located just outside London, was operational from 1965 to 2010.
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