China announced a plan to triple its nuclear capacity by 2035. Beijing isn’t just building clean energy – it’s building an export-ready industry: reactors, know-how, fuel. Meanwhile, Europe is stuck between ideological debates, legacy coal plants, and intermittent renewables.
For us, a digital agency running servers, databases, and e-commerce platforms for Italian SMEs, this is a concrete issue. Every website, every SaaS app, every ERP system depends on electricity. Energy costs in Italy are already among the highest in Europe. If tomorrow we have to import Chinese nuclear technology – or worse, rely on Beijing for uranium and maintenance – margins will shrink further. So will the security of our digital supply chain.
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Our position is clear: energy is the first digital infrastructure. Without a stable, sovereign, predictable energy base, there is no scalability, no competitiveness.
We’ve seen what happens when a strategic sector is left to a handful of foreign suppliers: chips, software, cloud. Now we risk the same with nuclear. We’re not anti-nuclear – we’re against the illusion of staying out while others build. A single data center consumes 1 to 10 MW per year. If Italy doesn’t launch its own next-gen nuclear program now, in ten years we’ll be buying Chinese (or Russian) reactors with the same dependency we have on Taiwanese semiconductors. And businesses will pay the price in higher bills and geopolitical vulnerability.
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What to do. Italian SMEs: raise your voice. Demand a national energy plan that includes safe, European nuclear with transparency and security standards no other country can guarantee. Meanwhile, optimize your digital consumption – we cut image weight by 60% on an e-commerce site without losing quality (fewer bytes, fewer watts). Optimized servers, smart caching, green hosting. Energy can be managed, but without a national strategy every efficiency gain is just a band-aid.
