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Silicon Valley progressives buy up nuclear reactors to power their AI and data center needs
American Thinker ^ | 10/18/2024 | Olivia Murray

Posted on 10/18/2024 7:13:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

When the rubber met the road and the progressive climate change warriors in Silicon Valley needed energy to power their AI and data centers, you might be surprised to learn they didn’t opt for the “renewable” energy technologies they’ve been forcing down our throats (wind turbines and solar panels), using the weight of big government, but instead went for…reliability and affordability.

Or maybe it’s not all that unexpected, considering these are the same people who fly from climate conference to climate conference in personal private jets and gorge themselves on Kobe beef while calling on us to limit ourselves to crickets and lab-grown “meat” mash.

Today, Jo Nova at her eponymous blog reported on the news that executives at three of the biggest names in the tech world, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, have been buying up nuclear reactors to supply the tremendous amount of energy required to run AI programs and data collection/storage facilities:

Two weeks ago it was Microsoft reviving Three Mile Island’s nuclear plant. Now Google is buying seven small modular reactors, and Amazon is  spending $500 million USD on part of a nuclear energy company.

If you weren’t aware, AI and data centers consume an unbelievable amount of energy; from Goldman Sachs earlier this year:

On average, a ChatGPT query needs nearly 10 times as much electricity to process as a Google search.

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Now, as the pace of efficiency gains in electricity use slows and the AI revolution gathers steam, Goldman Sachs Research estimates that data center power demand will grow 160% by 2030.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ai; datacenter; energy; nuclear
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1 posted on 10/18/2024 7:13:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

What could possibly go wrong?


2 posted on 10/18/2024 7:13:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

As we are all miserably aware, these three companies are radically left, both in their company mission and the personal ideology of their executives, and they use their weight to influence policy—they’re leading proponents of the progressive “climate change” narrative. While they’ve certainly “invested” a bit into the “zero-carbon” energy schemes, they abandoned their positions for personal gain when they needed reliability and affordability—the very reason we conservatives have insisted that nuclear energy is a great and clean option.

Does that mean we “unwashed masses” will be afforded the same opportunities? Or will we still be saddled inefficient and unaffordable?

I suspect the latter. If the Democrats have their way.


3 posted on 10/18/2024 7:14:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

ogawd they even made a movie.

4 posted on 10/18/2024 7:15:47 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: dfwgator

Lots.


5 posted on 10/18/2024 7:16:14 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: SeekAndFind

They are only interested in their own interests. They were happy to virtue signal about “green power” until it occurred to them they needed a lot of power to run their AI. Then they turn on a dime, and start the chant of “nuclear power is good”.


6 posted on 10/18/2024 7:16:28 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s why demonrats must lose hugely on Election Day.


7 posted on 10/18/2024 7:16:32 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: SeekAndFind

So in other words...their hypocrisy on full display for everyone. Good.


8 posted on 10/18/2024 7:18:02 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: xoxox

**ogawd they even made a movie.**

Enjoyed that flick. Carley Soon showed off a big butt in that one.


9 posted on 10/18/2024 7:22:08 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: SeekAndFind

bkmk


10 posted on 10/18/2024 7:25:57 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I fully suspect that as soon as these plant go live.

That VERY shortly after, you will see Ultra high end gated communities suddenly appear along the power lines from the reactor to the AI farms.

And/or island/ walled off communites powered by “private” reactors. Electricity, desalinisatione etc.. near completely self sufficient. And well guarded.


11 posted on 10/18/2024 7:30:16 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: SeekAndFind

A few, large, targeted donations to a lefty green candidate’s war chest, or cash handed out under the table will keep them quiet.


12 posted on 10/18/2024 7:34:02 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: SeekAndFind
Yet another example of how Democrats/liberals view how things should be done:

"Rules for thee, not for me."

13 posted on 10/18/2024 7:34:10 AM PDT by asinclair (It's too bad there will never be a RICO indictment of the DNC.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They’re special. They need cheap, reliable power. The rest of us, oh well, we’ll have to make do.


14 posted on 10/18/2024 7:37:07 AM PDT by redangus ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Isn’t it something how so called environmentalists are willing to put the fate of the environment in the worst possible pearl in order to run their AI. 100,000 years of possible environmental destruction so that the word can be run and controlled by AI(The beast). What is even sadder is that most conservatives approve.


15 posted on 10/18/2024 7:38:38 AM PDT by Revel
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To: uranium penguin

Not liking those predictions, which sounds like it will happen. Gotta go chop some wood to cheer myself up now.


16 posted on 10/18/2024 7:47:31 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: SeekAndFind

If you believe that any left-wing pack of arseholes will allow any nuclear power plants to operate — well, you are truly dumb. Nuclear is dead in the US. Has been for years.

Oh, and BTWay, I am a nuclear engineer — 30+ years experience.


17 posted on 10/18/2024 7:50:31 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: SeekAndFind
I’d like to ask why the “pace of efficiency gains in electricity” is slowing...

Mostly because the easy and affordable "efficiency gains" have already been achieved, and we have reached a point of diminishing returns. No matter how efficient you make energy use, you still need some power to run the operation.

This basic fact also impacts our collective ability to power the new hotness of electric cars.

18 posted on 10/18/2024 8:02:07 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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I must admit that I find a certain amount of schadenfreude watching left wing assholes turning to nuclear power to protect their capitalistic bottom line, after fear mongering for years about how dangerous nuclear power is in any form.

Personally I’d say nuclear power in the US is not quite dead, but it is on life support. Retired nuclear engineer here with 30+ years in the nuclear industry.


19 posted on 10/18/2024 8:11:26 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: dfwgator

What could possibly go wrong?

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Whe have nuclear power and the grid. We are planning to DISTRIBUTE our nuclear reactors where it will be exhorbitantly expensive to protect them from terrorists. We are doing this while we are allowing unvetted people from every country to walk across our border illegally. We are planning to DISTRIBUTE OUR NUCLEAR REACTORS because of climate change, while China and India are building many, many coal plants.

This plan, and our open borders are just insane! This is a very foolish plan.


20 posted on 10/18/2024 8:18:31 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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