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Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors (english.elpais.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Do it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I mean, that's what Ford did. They had the tech to generate power for the factory, so were the city's electric company.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, do it. Quit being a consumer of mixed source power, start being a producer of steady, good energy.

(Dirty enough that calling it clean green energy gets pushback, but far better than non-green normal sources like coal or natural gas.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nuclear power is complicated because it still involves mining. Which will inevitably damage the environment even if all the mining equipment are electric vehicles run on solar power.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

So does literally every energy source. Solar panels and wind turbines don't grow on trees.