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bigdragon I have an even better idea: Force the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Loudoun county Virginia. Yes, it would have to go adjacent to or on one of the islands of the Potomac River. I can already hear the gnashing of teeth from people screaming about the sanctity of the river, the need to keep it all natural and pristine, land values, and how important the river ecosystem is. These same people also demand that their neighbors carve up their communities with transmission lines and pay more for utilities while also bragging about how low the taxes are in Loudoun because of all the data center income. PJM is going to keep carving states up with transmission lines, increasing delivery/transmission fees, and failing to meet energy capacity requirements until we do something about the source of the problem. We cannot allow one jurisdiction to approve the construction of and further incentivize future construction for more data centers than the grid can handle today, tomorrow, and in the near future. Loudoun can build its own power plants to power its data centers. It doesn't need to be pulling electricity from Three Mile Island in Harrisburg, PA and continue screwing over everyone living within PJM's territory. Reply
Scott_Tx By the time they could build a nuclear power plant the AI bubble will have long burst and they know that. And its one of the most expensive forms of power too. Reply
rgd1101 Scott_Tx said: By the time they could build a nuclear power plant the AI bubble will have long burst and they know that. And its one of the most expensive forms of power too. more reliable too Reply
bigdragon Scott_Tx said: By the time they could build a nuclear power plant the AI bubble will have long burst and they know that. And its one of the most expensive forms of power too. Loudoun would still use the power. Every big tech company has data centers there. Plenty of content delivery, virtual machine, cloud storage, and data analytics going on. They're so desperate for power that companies like Microsoft dumped tons of money into restarting Three Mile Island's remaining reactor, and PJM has been busy with transmission lines to move that power from PA to VA. Every new Loudoun data center is having to provide their own on-site generation because of how bad the PJM energy deficit is. I really don't see an alternative to a nuclear power plant on the Potomac. Reply
wwenze1 Stock market will be very interesting when the robot-investors suddenly stop. Reply
EclipseGST94 Scott_Tx said: By the time they could build a nuclear power plant the AI bubble will have long burst and they know that. And its one of the most expensive forms of power too. "Bubble" LOL. T Boomer- "those silly computers are a fad" Reply
Eximo Scott_Tx said: By the time they could build a nuclear power plant the AI bubble will have long burst and they know that. And its one of the most expensive forms of power too. Bubble burst doesn't mean the AI goes away. It just means a whole lot of companies fail, go bankrupt, sell their assets at a fire sale. Economy and stock market take a massive drop. The big players survive, buy up the assets, and sell the capabilities to a realistic market. Not the fanciful one where consumers have 1.5 trillion to spend on AI services over the next few years. Sure some datacenters might go dark for a while. But once the infrastructure is built, the owners will hold on to them until someone comes along and wants the capacity. Always be ever-increasing storage and traditional hosting demands if nothing else. Internet didn't go away when the dotcom bubble burst. You just saw a whole bunch of companies that were extremely overvalued have all their debt collectors come calling when they couldn't prove out revenue streams. Reply
circadia EclipseGST94 said: "Bubble" LOL. T Boomer- "those silly computers are a fad" instead of properly arguing, you decided to just throw a random insult in. lol, really. Reply
logainofhades EclipseGST94 said: "Bubble" LOL. T Boomer- "those silly computers are a fad" Must be a kid that didn't live through the dot com bubble. Scott_Tx said: By the time they could build a nuclear power plant the AI bubble will have long burst and they know that. And its one of the most expensive forms of power too. Far better than solar or wind, with regards to reliabilty and acerage needed. Newer technology has made recycling spent fuel rods possible, so far less waste needs to be stored somewhere, roughly 4% vs trying to store all of it. Reply
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