This is exactly what I've been advocating for. Nuclear power, especially if they lift the restrictions on fuel recycling, is the cleanest option we have besides solar and wind, and it's a technology that is fully developed and available now. Nuclear power is heavily regulated and is very safe these days, and is not reliant on rare earth metals like many solar panels still are.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You've been advocating for pointlessly wasting the output of an entire nuclear power plant during a time when an urgent decarbonization of energy is needed, to fuel the energy needs of a corporate monopoly running server farms providing a technology that's neither wanted or needed outside of niche use cases, following an online hype mixed with scams and rugpull startups that rival crypto's heydey?

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My original idea was for the AI companies to shell out for building new nuclear plants, but bringing an old one back online is a step in the right direction. I don't think the current "AI" projects are actually worth the resources they consume, but if they're going to exist, their creators should be shelling out for non-fossil fuel options to power them.

[–] Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Advocates for clean energy, not nuclear
Against a technology with a lot of hype, that also no one wants
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