Pepperidge Farms must’ve met my dad a few years back.

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    Further proof that no amount of wealth can buy intelligence, taste, class, etc. Look at the interior of a lot of supercars for example.

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    For what it’s worth many data centers include their own power generation. Would be a boon for modular nuclear reactors if they were ready and if the us wasn’t so shy about nuclear. I wonder if other countries are having this issue? Like is there a big pushback to data centers in china, India, UAE, or Singapore? If not then what’s the difference and how are they managing data center development?

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        Man modular nuclear would be so good right now, in some cases we could even drop them into decommissioned gas and coal plants aka use the heat exchanger and turbines. Within reason it would be nice to see them fast tracked for this.

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      I think the small modular reactor concept is overdone. Small doesn’t mean cheap, and cheap is what we want.

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    Fuck that guy and fuck data centers, but this meme is misinformed.

    The biggest problem with our current grid is power distribution, as in getting power from the production source to its destination (your house). We absolutely have production issues, but even if we resolve those, we still need to contend with the distribution bottleneck.

    Most, if not all of these datacenter plans and include built in power production. Whether it is Google’s geothermal, meta’s nuclear, or whatver, the power production for the datacenters are meant to be relatively close to the actual.

    EDIT: Let me be clear. Almost all of these dedicated power production facilities for datacenters WILL BE subsidized (or fully paid for) by local electric consumers and tax payers in the form of taxes, bonds, and electric bill fees. They are willing to do that for datacenters but not to upgrade our infrastructure (the grid) so that we can transition to EV’s.

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    It’s a tag team match with the oil companies, carmakers and the AI companies on one side and consumers on the other.