• @Intergalactic
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    384 hours ago

    At this point, I’ll take nuclear over fossil fuels

    • sunzu2
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      174 hours ago

      my man… this is not being refurbished to replace fossil, this is being built to feed microshit’s datacenters and US taxpayer gonna pay for it.

      sure nuclear would be great… but this aint for us ;)

      • Saik0
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        25 minutes ago

        sure nuclear would be great… but this aint for us ;)

        Yes it is. Every plant that’s live, means that things can be done more and more at scale, which drives down the price overall. In this narrow specific case, Microsoft will drive down the price which will make the already appealing nuclear (aside from NIMBY folk who will never give in because of their ignorance) even MORE appealing for baseload handling. Every plant, private or public will increase engineer knowledge and production of parts (increasing scale) which is better overall for nuclear.

        And overall, these companies are going to increase their power load regardless. I’d rather new power production go to the better technology that won’t actively poison the environment. Driving down the % of power generated by coal/oil should be universally applauded. Even if it’s just new implementation of a large workload.

      • @[email protected]
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        293 hours ago

        My guy, they’re going to power it either way on our dime. His point is better it’s nuclear than fossil at least.

        • sunzu2
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          113 hours ago

          i don’t want key facts why this is happening to be lost in the discourse.

          always follow the the money.

          also accepting these parasite corpo wins as some sort of win for the peasants is mehh

          but sure, cool!

          • @[email protected]
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            62 hours ago

            I think you’re still missing the point. It’s a loss, it’s criminal, our government sucks. There is no win here. But AT LEAST it’s not another coal mine reopening or a new pipeline. This comment has nothing to do with why this is happening or trying to convince anyone it’s a good thing. Slow your attack

            • sunzu2
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              -52 hours ago

              But AT LEAST it’s not another coal mine reopening or a new pipeline.

              You are providing politcal cover for this extraction attempt… I am clarifying the record that giving mega corps money to so they can fund their datacenter infrastructure is not good. If they want to do this, let them pay for it.

              Y’all need to start thinking at system level instead of larping corpo propaganda to get you accept a hand out.

              • @[email protected]
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                51 hour ago

                You’re missing his point because you want t trumpet your own. Let me flip the question around a bit

                If they were to build for, and pay for the electrical capacity on their own dime, would you prefer them doing it with nuclear or coal?

                • sunzu2
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                  -41 hour ago

                  If they were to build for, and pay for the electrical capacity on their own dime, would you prefer them doing it with nuclear or coal?

                  Lesser of two evils set up created by the owner class and y’all just larp it at every turn…

                  I guess we deserve the regime we got.

                  Until plebs start think on systemic level, nothing will change.

                  But sure cheer, for mega corp getting a hand out because you like the type of hand they got!

  • sunzu2
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    245 hours ago

    Didn’t microshit ask feds to give them subsidized loan for this project?

    These parasites never want to play capitalism, they always need state to pay them lol

    But we can’t have maternity leave 🤡

  • SolacefromSilence
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    115 hours ago

    They couldn’t get it right before enshittification has gripped everything.

    The companies involved, the industry, and the regulators currently can’t be trusted; this project should be killed.

    • BombOmOm
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      63 hours ago

      You would rather power it with natural gas? Because that is what would largely power it otherwise. The datacenter does not turn off at night.

      • andyburke
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        22 hours ago

        Or … maybe the datacenter shouldn’t use so much power to produce something of extremely questionable worth to our species. 🤷‍♂️

        • @[email protected]
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          149 minutes ago

          Awesome. Your next step should be: getting appointed to the hooded and robed “council that decides the intrinsic worth of every human endeavor and inculcates this via subliminal carrier wave to the whole species”.

          Make that “maybe” come true kiddo!