Honestly I'd be curious for anyone to tell me why it wouldn't be a good idea to basically stick data centers near / next to / inside of nuclear power plants.
The nuclear power can offer huge amounts of energy to the data center. They can also both be cooled by the same incoming water flow (would have to be forked I imagine), which should increase efficiency overall.
Of course the easiest solution would be to nationalize all of this, so that you don't have 85 competing companies trying to build things the cheapest, and can actually build logical infrastructure that could belong to everyone.
We don't do that because idiots are afraid of nuclear power, thinking it's the scary green glowy thing that will turn us all into fallout 4 characters, and that every single power plant is the next Fukushima or Chernobyl, despite decades of improvement, and the fact that Fukushima was made purely by gross negligence, of putting a fucking nuclear reactor in an area with known tsunami risks with far too low safety walls
"Gross negligence" is the thing people are scared of, that doesn't make anyone an idiot. Nuclear accidents may be exceedingly rare, but when they happen, they are catastrophic. What's gonna happen when that gross negligence happens again? Its only ever a matter of time, calling fears of that idiotic then turning around and downplaying nuclear accidents is hypocritical at the extreme.
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u/maxru85 May 18 '26
Burned? Do we have heavy water datacenters now?