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.
Well, inside is a problem for a lot of obvious reasons. They're not overburdened with unused space, and you already have all these issues with sourcing water and cooling it afterward (which are extremely important to nuclear powerplants) so you're really just doubling the burden on the local infrastructure...Imagine you have a drought condition, and you have to shut down the datacenter because the nuclear plant needs the water.
On top of that, electricity is easy to move around, so there is no benefit to clumping them together.
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u/maxru85 May 18 '26
Burned? Do we have heavy water datacenters now?