Palantir jumps aboard tech-nuclear bandwagon with software deal

Palantir has become the latest tech company to jump on the nuclear power bandwagon - not by making a datacenter deal like Microsoft or Amazon, mind you, but by providing its data analytics software to a startup aiming to help build nuclear plants faster and cheaper. The data analytics software provider announced a deal with …

[cyberdemon]

It's Palantir..

They are a surveillance-tech company. So what is this "enhanced data-driven process" to speed up the project management of new nuclear builds going to look like?

My guess is: any hippies, NIMBYs, trade-unionists and the like will automatically be identified and added to Palantir's shitlist!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: It's Palantir..

How long until they need a nuke to power the NHS Federated Data Platform ??

[Anonymous Coward]

Seems like the blind leading the blind considering Palantir know nothing about nuclear, and TNC appear to be a Ponzi scheme.

[Ashentaine]

So far all of this palaver about un-mothballing nuke plants to run AI data barns just looks like another grift with no actual roadmap behind it, so I can't blame Palantir for wanting to grab a few fistfuls of cash for themselves before it all collapses.

[Anonymous Coward]

“by providing its data analytics software to a startup aiming to help build nuclear plants faster and cheaper.”

I think just successfully allow Nuclear start-up’s to build a reactor/plant that works would be the baseline. Faster/cheaper to follow.

At least Rolls-Royce can actually build the fucking things in the first place … which is more than all the rest put together..