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Sunday, October 20, 2024

Corporations Going Nuclear

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US corporations requiring economical and reliable 24-7-365 electrical power service are going Nuclear.
The current drive to exploit AI is driving up electric grid demand in-addition-to uncertainty about reliability and cost of government-mandated changes to the grid going forward.
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Current US grid power utilities are being directed by government entities to down-size reliable nuclear and fossil-fuel and hydro generation with unreliable variable-wind and daylight-solar electricity.
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Cause-Effect: go private-modular-nuclear with units reflective of the nuclear powered aircraft carriers and submarines.
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Issues: Where will these corporate units be located, how will their safety be guaranteed and what to do with yet more spent nuclear fuel.
Just more unintended negative consequences of the so called ‘green energy game’.
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Google Quietly Signs Deal to Use Nuclear Power to Supply Its AI Operations
Google Quietly Signs Deal to Use Nuclear Power to Supply Its AI Operations – WokeSpy
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Search giant Google is turning to nuclear reactors to power its Artificial Intelligence data centers, which many big tech companies now label as “green energy.”
The news came after Microsoft and Constellation Energy unveiled a power purchase deal, enabling a reactor restart at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant.
Big tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are aggressively expanding their data center capabilities to meet the AI revolution’s computing needs while scouring for sources of electricity, Science Alert said.
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Sleep-tight; politicians and bureaucrats are in-charge of your electricity supply, reliability and cost – what could possibly go wrong?
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'Dominion Energy' Changes Drinks
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/05/dominion-energy-changes-drinks.html
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Energy: Trick or Treat
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/10/energy-trick-or-treat.html
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