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People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants In Their Area Than AI Data Centers (www.forbes.com)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Why build a nuclear power plant with your data center if you could just get power from the grid and drive up everyone else’s price too

The national grid has raw physical limits that many data centers already exceed.

Silicon Valley’s AI Boom Hits a Wall: Data Centers Are Built but Can’t Turn On

Power shortages and high costs are stalling new data centers, leaving the Bay Area behind faster-growing markets like Atlanta and Northern Virginia.

What do Atlanta and Virginia have access to that Silicon Valley lacks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Plant

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 minute ago

Yes, but that's not THEIR problem. It's everyone's problem and in the official country of privatize the gains and socialize the losses, that means it's up to the taxpayer to fix it.