Martin Seeger on Nostr: The Cloud Providers will not build nuclear power plants Lately news like these seem ...
The Cloud Providers will not build nuclear power plants
Lately news like these seem to suggest that the cloud providers would build nuclear energy plants:
https://www.cascadepbs.org/news/2024/11/amazon-offers-334m-nuclear-reactors-be-built-hanford
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/amazon-nuclear-small-modular-reactor-net-carbon-zero
Therere are several things that make clear that this will never happen. Foremost:
Building a nuclear plant takes decades. None of the cloud providers is thinking that far ahead.
A power plant would require a lot of capital that brings (for cloud providers) low return.
Then why are there such news?
These are detractors. They are supposed to convert the question "Is the enormous use of energy by cloud providers OK?" into the question "Are in favor or against nuclear energy?"
Nuclear energy is a topic that invokes a lot of emotions. These emotions shall help cloud providers to dosged the real question.
Lately news like these seem to suggest that the cloud providers would build nuclear energy plants:
https://www.cascadepbs.org/news/2024/11/amazon-offers-334m-nuclear-reactors-be-built-hanford
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/amazon-nuclear-small-modular-reactor-net-carbon-zero
Therere are several things that make clear that this will never happen. Foremost:
Building a nuclear plant takes decades. None of the cloud providers is thinking that far ahead.
A power plant would require a lot of capital that brings (for cloud providers) low return.
Then why are there such news?
These are detractors. They are supposed to convert the question "Is the enormous use of energy by cloud providers OK?" into the question "Are in favor or against nuclear energy?"
Nuclear energy is a topic that invokes a lot of emotions. These emotions shall help cloud providers to dosged the real question.