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Meltdowns are also not the only risk.

If it's that easy, why didn't Fukushima's plant get the meltdown-proof reactor?

Yep. Personally I'd be happy with a nuclear power plant in my town, but it's not because I read some book proving to me that it's safe.

And I don't want to hear the Fukushima partial-meltdown was operator error and we just need people to not make mistakes. I'd rather be told that accidents will happen, radioactive substances will leak, and we have ways to deal with that.

The above comment didn't say that sailboats don't exist.

Earthquakes and tsunamis often go together, and operator mistakes always happen.

"Which other source has cleanup operations going for decades, 1000s of miles from where a single plant operated?"

I thought the answer was going to be a coal plant until I read the rest

I'm not sure what else you want beyond my answer, maybe proof that these big tech companies have indeed been hiring bright engineers, but maybe you or someone else can find it on the Internet. I'm gonna go ahead and agree with Dig1t on this.

I'm still curious what all these companies exactly want genAI for, but I doubt it's about ads. And the other kinds of AI aren't driving the new power usage.

The talent follows the money. Consider what was hottest during the 2000s-2010s tech boom, startups offering free services with the value proposition of eventual data collection for ads.

Maybe also look at value instead of revenue, in terms of public market caps or private acquisitions. At least Facebook's $1.48T market cap is derived from ads.

"Don't be evil," from the very beginning, actually meant "focus on revenue more than profit for the time being."

The assumption is that AI builds momentum in nuclear power to the point where it can be used elsewhere. I've kept hearing that nuclear is very expensive mainly due to lack of scale.

I'm also glad to see that the hot startups aren't social media anymore.

You can look at what percentage of each big tech company's revenue is ads or how much they've spent on their advertising platforms.