Electricity consumption from data centers, AI and crypto mining (its own environmental headache) could double by 2026, according to the International Energy Agency.
Unit 3 at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia, one of the newest reactors in the U.S. But the country’s nuclear fleet is aging, prompting Congress to pass the ADVANCE Act to help promote development of new nuclear technology. the job-killing, cancer-curing utopia that the technology’s evangelists are peddling. So far, artificial intelligence has proven more capable of generating stock market enthusiasm than, like, tangibly great things for humanity.
Amazon is working on putting a data center campus right on the site of a Talen Energy nuclear power plant in Northeast Pennsylvania. To be sure, nuclear power today is better understood than it was in 1979, when Three Mile Island’s Reactor Two experienced a partial core meltdown, Anna Erickson, a professor of nuclear science at Georgia Tech, told me.
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