| havin’funfarming - 1/29/2026 07:40
Another question is why are they going nuclear and not all using solar and wind power with battery backups? The industries building these are at the leading edges of high tech and yet they seem to now be choosing nuclear energy over leading edge green energy sources. They have the resources and knowledge at their disposal to use the best of the best as far as current green tech goes.
NIMBYs are coming up with every reason under the sun to shut down wind turbines, solar and batteries. We just recently had a nearby town shut-down a utility scale battery due to the risk of it catching fire and spreading heavy metals across the land. At least that one has some merit unlike some of the more far fetched ideas like solar panels leaching chemicals or infrasound from turbines.
I personally would like to see these data centers front and maintain such things though; as power hungry as they'll be I think they're prime candidates and locations for utility scale storage. |
Using nuclear for data centres
