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.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•3 months ago

      They’re talking about 5+ years on the new nuclear in these. And they haven’t done it before, so a 30% deadline slip is realistic.

      You can put up a lot of wind and solar in that time.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•3 months ago

        You can put up a lot of wind and solar in that time.

        Which needs a stable baseline to counteract lack of supply and/or a lot of lithium. And space.

        • @[email protected]OPEnglish
          1•3 months ago

          The existing large-scale batteries are largely lithium. There are a bunch of iron-chemistry ones and sodium-ion ones which have been deployed over the past year, with factories going up to scale them up. I’m not expecting to be limited by lithium availability for stationary batteries.