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Trump Orders Faster Build-Out of Nuclear Power Plants | Among a flurry of executive actions, Mr. Trump directed the nation’s nuclear safety regulator to speed up approvals for new reactors. (www.nytimes.com)
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It's worth noting that he also fired many of the staff who know how to ensure that they're actually safe, as well as the staff who would approve financing.

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

Feed the hungry AI, I guess?

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

If you even get a doubling of power usage that way, I'd be surprised.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

One AI datacenter will soon take up the same electricity as a city if we let tech bros keep building.

Instead of admitting the tech has hit a wall they will burn the planet down for diminishing returns on this scam

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

But what if AI collapses at some point? Approve a load of nuclear reactors and then AI collapses so we can use all that power for the good of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Why would we make excess power we have to discharge?

It's literally a waste of resources.

Maybe we should build housing and other things people actually need.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Countries that still use coal could turn those off thanks to the nuclear reactors

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I feel like you don't understand how spending money to produce extra cities worth of power that we then have to throw away is a bad idea.

Also building nuclear has nothing to do with AI