Amazon, Google and Microsoft Are Investing in Nuclear Power
www.nytimes.com
Large technology companies are investing billions of dollars in nuclear energy as an emissions-free source of electricity for artificial intelligence and other businesses.

My impression is that this is a PR push, designed to avoid having to invest in renewables, and let them keep on burning gas and coal, rather than something likely to come to fruition.

  • @vonxylofonEnglish
    5•1 month ago

    Conveniently, the heat from all this power being generated and subsequently used in the data centres doesn’t count as emmissions. Twats.

    • @SmoothOperatorEnglish
      7•1 month ago

      Fairly so - it isn’t emissions, and does not contribute to the problem in a meaningful way.

      The reason why emissions are dangerous is because they trap solar heat at large enough scales to change the global climate. Server farm heating isn’t really anywhere near contributing at that scale.