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2024 was the hottest year on record

How do we limit global warming and produce enough clean energy? A lot of Big Tech thinks the answer is nuclear power.

Claire Yubin Oh

First came the hottest July in history. Then the hottest summer. Now, 2024 has officially been named the hottest year on record, according to a collective release of data from scientists in multiple countries and from multiple organizations.

With global temperatures breaking through the Paris Agreement’s target of limiting global warming under 1.5 C, the age-old debates about who should shoulder the burden of change required to limit future warming — the public or private sector, the developed or developing economies — will once again rage into 2025.

At the center of that debate this year, is likely to be nuclear energy.

Last year, nuclear enjoyed something of a renaissance. Due to its insatiable AI demands, Big Tech is hungry for more energy-guzzling data centers, forcing the tech titans to look for larger, more reliable options for energy like nuclear. In 2024, Amazon, Google, and Oracle all invested in major nuclear projects, ranging from the infamous Three Mile Island power plant to small modular reactors. Nuke stocks like Vistra Corp and Constellation Energy soared as a result, momentum that they have carried into 2025 already.

Separately, some businesses around the world have started to roll back on green efforts, including the withdrawal of megabanks like Bank of America and Morgan Stanley from climate coalitions last week.

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And though the US players’ performance on the pitch might not have lived up to the high drama off it, American soccer fans certainly showed up. According to early estimates, the 4-1 defeat against Belgium was the most watched soccer telecast in US history, hauling some 40 million viewers on average across the coverage on Fox and Telemundo.

That may be a record tally in the US for the sport that much of the world calls some variant of “football” — besting the 36.2 million who tuned in to watch the team’s previous knock-out match — but it’s still peanuts in comparison to the sport that shares the same name in the States.

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