Nukes For Data Centers ???

In October of last year, I made this prediction about the future of electricity:

"... for the most part our existing nuclear plants which have been shutdown suffered that fate because they were too expensive to operate. I suspect that if and when they DO restart, the operating costs will be forcibly passed on to the general public by Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, etc. ... something state regulatory agencies collectively were not allowing.

"So in summary, I believe a two-tiered system is being created - a nuclear powered one for the big AI companies and server farms in general, and another "sustainably powered" one for the rest of us - BOTH of which will be paid for by the general public AND which will be much more expensive than what we're paying now."

Source - https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-future-of-electricity.html

Well, these two recent reports appear to confirm my prediction:

https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/meta-signs-nuclear-power-deal-constellation-fuel-ai

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/amazon-invest-20-billion-pennsylvania-expand-cloud-infrastructure

Have you ever stopped to wonder what these new AI/data centers will be doing ... or why there will be so many of them, all around the world? Will YOUR data be there (probably), and did you get paid for allowing it to be stored and used there (probably NOT)? My guess is it will make some oligarch(s) even richer than they are now AND possibly even force you into unemployment.

Are you happy now?

By the way, in a former life I worked at both the Susquehanna and Clinton nuclear power plants. In my opinion, the former was well run, the latter not so much. In fact, one of the safety-related systems at Clinton had not been constructed in accordance with its design specification, and had I not discovered that flaw it might never have been corrected.

But that's one of the underlying problems of nuclear power - in spite of the multiple layers of engineering and operational review, potentially serious flaws can remain undetected for years ... or forever. And people like me who are capable of detecting and reporting them are not really welcome in the industry (at least not back then).

Think about that the next time someone hails them as the solution to the problem of climate change.