Yeah, right after they've burned a trillion gallons of diesel in diesel generators to power the data centers.
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The EU's reaction to AI has been so sad. Hard to keep hope when the only sane region in the world is also fully on board.
The region is hardly sane, it is already very nuclear.
New Zealand has traditionally been about the sanest, their standards slipped in their last election though.
nuclear business bros crawled so AI business bros could fly.
Bullshit. They won't wait that long.
you mean for a generation or so? Yeah, lol, the AI hype will die off in a few years.
Those take decades to build, so I highly doubt that.
Decades to build and Billons to subsidize
Have you seen the modern modular nuclear reactors? They can be up and running in a matter of months, two years you can build a complex in GWs.
On paper or in practice? Including the extra time required for lawsuits from nearby residents and environmental groups, protests, etc.?
LOL
Anything but solar huh? I guess it's a start.
Nuclear bros have been grifting for much longer than AI bros.
Note to journalists: please don’t put “nuclear” and “boom” in the same sentence. Thanks.
"Nuclear" and "Boom" shouldn't be used in the same sentence.
"Wait, I need to check Twitter what happens in Japan!"
"BOOM. BOOM. BOOM."
* closes browser tab and cries *
What if we used that nuclear energy to phase out coal and oil?
What if we asked dragons to boil water for energy?
It will have to be seen whether the EU sees a nuclear boom, but globally we will see this I am afraid. The two countries leading the AI race at the moment definitely will: The U.S. government has reaffirmed nuclear power as a key pillar of its long-term clean energy strategy a year or so ago, with the revival previously retired reactors and extensions of aging ones.
And China has joined a pledge to triple global nuclear energy capacity by 2050 which stemmed from the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, also known as COP28,
... The installed [nuclear] capacity has been growing at a remarkable rate in China, the future home of just under half of the world’s nuclear reactors currently under construction .... [China's nuclear] capacity addition should accelerate [by 2030, according to China's current five-year plan], as the State Council has been approving 10 or more new reactor units annually since 2022 ...
Fact check: The number of nuclear reactors in the EU is constantly falling since end of the 1980s.
The two main reasons are safety and costs.
And no, 1000 reactors - developed underenormous cost pressure - producing 100 kW of energy each are not going to be safer than 10 reactors producing 10GW each, for similar reasons that 1000 vehicles transporting 4 people each along a busy motorway are not safer than 1 high-speed train transporting 1000 people.