yeah secondary knockon effects - once nvidia realizes it’s not going to actually sell 5 gpus per human being, the datacenters for them evaporate, then the power production to feed those datacenters becomes pointless…
an effective administration would mandate all renewable energy for this purpose, so when it implodes they could at least derive a benefit from the expanded production… but no, trump will have them build coal plants for it all. or like grok, methane powered generators fml
bringing old reactors online may end up an overall positive (say, if the ai bubble pops soon but the reactors still come online and displace fossil sources) but I’m dubious about smr’s still. it just seems like more chances for radionucleotides to get smeared everywhere if they become ubiquitous.
The electrical industry is going to have a real bad time.
yeah secondary knockon effects - once nvidia realizes it’s not going to actually sell 5 gpus per human being, the datacenters for them evaporate, then the power production to feed those datacenters becomes pointless…
an effective administration would mandate all renewable energy for this purpose, so when it implodes they could at least derive a benefit from the expanded production… but no, trump will have them build coal plants for it all. or like grok, methane powered generators fml
and they are even considering extremely expensive nuclear plants to power them.
bringing old reactors online may end up an overall positive (say, if the ai bubble pops soon but the reactors still come online and displace fossil sources) but I’m dubious about smr’s still. it just seems like more chances for radionucleotides to get smeared everywhere if they become ubiquitous.