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Microsoft Looking to Use Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Data Centers(www.extremetech.com)

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That’s got nothing to do with Microsoft though. Their reactor wouldn’t be used to power other people, only their own data centers.

They currently buy that from the grid, and they don’t really have any control over the source of that electricity generation. We should absolutely be pushing the power generators to go with renewables, but Microsoft isn’t a generator. They’re a customer like you or me.

They’re looking at moving to small reactors eventually because of the cost of buying from the grid, not for the environment.

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It would still be far cheaper to deploy the same kind of capacity in renewables. Whoever came up with this brilliant plan can’t do basic math.

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