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2026-07-05 17:33 UTC
@nugger@poa.st The Trump admin is throwing a lot of money at these nuclear startups exactly for this reason.
The idea is they can just park a nuclear reactor at each of these data centers and not have to worry about the grid at all, just little self-sufficient islands of hyper-compute and electricity generation.
Also means the general public won't benefit much from the buildout, but hey, who cares about them.
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@christmasman@poa.st 2026-07-05 17:39
@Griffith@clubcyberia.co @nugger@poa.st I don't know about nuclear startups, but the Bay City TX nuclear plant is being saved specifically because a data center campus is going in nearby. All the solar and wind farms nearby that were given grid priority were killing the base load capacity, so the data center company negotiated to get power upstream of the meter for a reduced flat rate that would allow the plant to keep on running without being bumped off the grid for the priority power of "green" power.