The biggest setback is all of these companies lecturing us about being green, then sucking down power for cryptocurrency, and now LLMs.
In my mind, the only viable way out is the power density of nuclear. Datacenter should not be ordered by taxpayer subsidized energy.
Laughably, neither can wind in fact, and there’s still plenty of open question on if wind is even net positive at all.
The only reason tech like that spears to work is because of partial investment. Unfortunately wind comes at tremendous cost and destruction of natural landscapes, enormous maintenance, and piles of carbon fiber waste.
Please give some sources. Because that is not the conclusion in the energy industry.
In the first three quarters of 2025 we added 137 TWh wind energy globally. That is not driven by subsidies or losing money.
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> In my mind, the only viable way out is the power density of nuclear.
How adding would more expensive energy solve it? I don’t get what ”energy density” has to do with it at all?
All western schemes to build new nuclear power are enormously subsidized.