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It's pure greenwashing.
They made a deal with a company that has zero practical experience with nuclear reactors, literally built nothing.
It's impossible that in just 6 years they will manage to:
Even if they finished yesterday to build the final version of the full scale reactor, 6 years aren't enough to go all through the regulatory red tape
Now that they promised that will use "green" energy in the future, Google can continue to use energy from coal and in 2030 everyone has forgotten about this vaporware deal
Yeah I don't know enough about the technologies involved to have an informed opinion but solutions involving nuclear always seem like this...
"Just let us keep doing what we're doing while we invent a new technology that will solve all our problems."
Obviously, the answer is... we absolutely should invent this new technology but while we're doing that we can transition to renewables and avoid grifts that rely on absurd energy usage like crypto and AI.