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Nobody is building nuclear power plants for data centres. A few people have signed some paperwork saying that they would buy electricity from new nuclear plants if they could deliver it at a certain price, a price mind you that has not been done before. Others are trying to restart an existing reactor at three mile island (a thing that has never been done before, and likely won't be done now since the reactor was shut down due to being too expensive to run).

And certainly nobody is building one in the next 3-4 years; they'd be lucky to finish the paperwork in that time.

What is actually going to power them is solar, wind, and batteries: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/10/24317888/googles-data-ce...

parent _aavaa_ 1 year ago

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