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They should be forced to make their own clean power plants. No clean coal, no natural gas. Only renewable since it is a guarantee that they will leave 100% of the cost of the nuclear disposal to the taxpayers.
It is also a guarantee they will not handle disposal safely
Even the clean energy supplied datacenters will heavily pollute the water used to cool it. So, even if we do that, we should still be pushing to reduce the amount of datacenters being built right now...
https://youtu.be/DjF6g51GHng
As opposed to the military handling disposal of the reactor materials... which is paid by... the taxpayers.
You didn't think this comment through every much, or at all really, did you?
I think this song epitomises what rafoix replied with
https://youtu.be/Q3sHdN4f_TI
I trust the military doing it to spec a million times more than any company executives. It’ll probably be left to pollute the area they hide it for decades before taxpayers have to pay for it.
The military probably will do better than a private company but also remember that the military has had numerous toxic waste problems. Camp Lejeune’s cancers and all the firefighting PFAs contaminating water supplies are just two i can think of off the top of my head but i’m sure theres many more.
The DOE doing it is already financially accounted for and there is a professional staff that are trained on how to do it
What renewables can they use for 24/7 high levels of power requirements?
Even though wind has higher capacity factors in most places, solar is more reliable.
Its a myth that ai datacenters need constant power. Inference uses less than training. And more queries happen during day than night. Less cooling power needed at night.
It is especially easy to build solar that will export to grid more than import throughout year, but it is also easy to be off grid, and store cooling for night, and for winter, and to not run max load in winter, or share grid imports in winter for regions with non electric heating. Share surpluses in 3 seasons.
I don’t give a shit. That should be their problem not ours.
If they’re too dumb to figure it out, they’re too dumb to make AI profitable.
This should be everyone's reaction when faced with "but how will [company] profit with [X] ?" questions.
It’s a bunch of indoctrination brainrot where all they ever think about is being of service to the wealthy.
Maybe they should ask ChatGPT.
They can afford the higher cost of electricity, but the rest of us can't, if they can add nuclear reactors to the power grid then it will drive the prices for normal people down so that it's nearly free.
You actually think they would lower the cost of electricity. Other than naivety, what evidence do you have that will show us how benevolent tech bros are?
Removing demand from the grid would reduce or prevent price hikes..