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Anyone else notice how fast everyone stopped giving a shit about "climate goals" when AI popped up? Now its a race to the gold, everything else be damned.

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>Consumers in some regions of the country are facing higher electric bills due to a boom in tech companies building data centers that guzzle power and force expensive infrastructure upgrades. Companies such as Google and Amazon have ramped up construction of new data centers as they race to compete in artificial intelligence. The facilities’ extraordinary demand for electricity to power and cool computers inside can drive up the price local utilities pay for energy and require significant improvements to electric grid transmission systems.

Anyone else notice how fast everyone stopped giving a shit about "climate goals" when AI popped up? Now its a race to the gold, everything else be damned. Archive: https://archive.today/hvBhj From the post: >>Consumers in some regions of the country are facing higher electric bills due to a boom in tech companies building data centers that guzzle power and force expensive infrastructure upgrades. Companies such as Google and Amazon have ramped up construction of new data centers as they race to compete in artificial intelligence. The facilities’ extraordinary demand for electricity to power and cool computers inside can drive up the price local utilities pay for energy and require significant improvements to electric grid transmission systems.
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Nuclear produces a lot of low-level waste is the only issue with it. Otherwise, it's about as damn near perfect as you can get.

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Won't China take it?

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Why would they? Contaminated gloves, clothing, safety glasses, tools, material, cleaning supplies and equipment that has touched radioactives are useless once contaminated. Spent fuel is reprocessed for other purposes.

One of my former jobs provided metering equipment, and two of the customers were the Savannah River project and the Fluor/Mox Piketon project. Once equipment was installed and contacted radioactives, it ran until it was dead or out of calibration, then discarded as waste. No re-use. Of course, Piketon was ALT-F4'd just as we shipped, but Savannah River took a lot of equipment over the years and used it.

https://www.nrc.gov/waste/incidental-waste/wir-process/wir-locations/saltstone.html

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Yeah, Chyna will take it. It's what they'll do with it that matters. They'll either feed the waste to thier pheasant class or refine it and send it back as payloads on ICBMs.

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CANDU reactors produce a waste, tritium I think, that is in demand in medical / science circles.

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By waste I mean non-fuel items. See my other post in this thread. Fuel and heavy materials from the using of fuel have uses once the fuel is spent.