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Nuclear powered Amazon AI robots anyone?
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Amazon Web Services on Monday added a nuclear-powered datacenter campus to its public cloud empire as part of a $650 million deal with Talen Energy – an owner and operator of electricity generation and transmission facilities in the US. The acquisition will see AWS take possession of a datacenter complex named Cumulus that …
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While it's great that Amazon is looking to expand it's access to renewable and carbon-free power, simply buying existing capacity makes zero net difference both environmentally and to the general power supply.... better build your own! Although one would expect in a free market environment that such purchases will encourage power providers to invest more into nuclear.
That is debatable, buying most of the output of the new UK offshore windfarms does not help anyone other than Amazon.
Amazon (or anyone else) making their data centres "green" at the expense of reducing existing carbon emissions is a complete farce. If Amazon are that keen on renewables then put solar panels on their distribution centres, add turbines if they can or guess what, use some of the billions the accumulate wot build their own wind farms.
Nerds think they understand science if they promote nuclear power (or genetic engineering). It impresses their mother in law and they get cheap self esteem. In reality they're totally clueless. Delusion.
The good thing is that now these data centers will be free to strike PPAs with whoever they want and that nuclear energy will be facing the ruthless market of cheap renewable. Time to wake up.
> Is that the market where companies are pulling out of projects and suppliers are warning of impending closures due to not being able to actually turn a profit?
Correct. As I said: "ruthless".
And the "not being able to actually turn a profit" should tell you that electricity is dirt cheap.
It's a new market, so it's marked by volatility and it will take years before it stabilizes and consolidates. This is the kind of things one learns in economics. Remember when personal computers became a thing back in the 80s?
"And the "not being able to actually turn a profit" should tell you that electricity is dirt cheap."
What that tells me is that its more expensive than they want to admit. It isn't a new market, wind has been around for centuries and solar for more than 4 decades. If solar had evolved as much as PCs have in the same time I'd be able to power my house from a panel the size of a sheet of paper. The problem is that fundamental physics gets in the way.