US startups design the small reactors that will power AI data centers — but Korea is building the factory. Here is the design-build-maintain value chain.
The world’s gas-turbine makers are sold out for years. Korea’s Doosan Enerbility is the AI-power overflow valve — plus an SMR option.
Everyone is buying the AI chip story. But data centers don’t run on GPUs alone — they run on electricity, and electricity is now the bottleneck. Here is a map of the AI-power supply chain, read two ways (vertical and horizontal), and where Korea’s manufacturers sit in it.
The AI power crunch revived the global nuclear cycle, and Korea is the rare country that can still build reactors on time and on budget. Here are the listed Korean nuclear stocks — and the policy risk foreign investors keep missing.