Energy exec punts datacenter power options out to long term

Datacenter operators worried about securing enough energy supplies should turn to on-site generation such as gas turbines in the short term, while longer-term answers may include sources like small nuclear reactors – but there is no catch-all silver bullet solution. Schneider Electric's veep of Innovation and Datacenter, …

[Brewster's Angle Grinder]

"The power's gone out again?! Right, which moron asked ChatGPT to summarise the entire internet...!"

[user555]

Flawless!

[EricB123]

You should moonlight as a comedian.

[Philo T Farnsworth]

I'm all in on datacenter nukes. . .

. . . as long as they and their investors agree to pay for all the inevitable cost overruns and not jack up their prices when they occur, as well as fully indemnify themselves in the case of a nuclear accident and deal with the waste on their own dime, preferably by burying it under the C-suite occupant's homes.

Clean, safe, to cheap to clean up after¹.

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¹ Yes, I know the source of the paraphrased quote and that the speaker was not referring to fission but to fusion, which remains perpetually 20 years in the future.

[user555]

Re: I'm all in on datacenter nukes. . .

The only people seeming to be giving a time estimate for fusion is all the "perpetually 20 years" doubters. I don't see news pieces setting any dates.