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Re: Nuclear plants.

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-11, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Nuclear plants.
Date 2025-10-12 18:30 +0000
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:33:51 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 12/10/2025 02:09, rbowman wrote:
>> apropos:   theregister.com/2025/10/10/datacenter_coal_power/
>> 
>> "Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal
>> 
>> High gas prices and surging AI demand send operators back to the
>> dirtiest fuel in the stack"
>> 
>> No problem, we've got you covered OpenAI.
>> 
>> https://www.montanacoalcouncil.org/reserves
> 
> Well coal is dirty and I wouldn't want to reintroduce it without being
> sure the stack scrubbers were installed and working.
> 
> And it isn't an option in the UK at scale because we don't have the
> cheap coal any more
> 
> It will all be nuclear eventually because northing else is as cheap or
> as safe or as low pollution *overall*

I think it's vastly amusing. Back in the '70s the US moved from those 
dirty old 'smokestack industries' that produced tangible goods to a 
'service economy' of taking in each other' laundry. 

Then came bitcoin mining that requires so much energy that even China 
balked at the increased pollution. Cryptocurrency is too ethereal for me. 
I never figured out what you can buy with it, and limiting transactions to 
a few minutes before the value changes seems to be a problem. 

https://theweek.com/tech/the-noise-of-bitcoin-mining-is-driving-americans-
crazy

That article doesn't even discuss the source of the energy only the noise 
pollution caused by 60,000 fans trying to dissipate the heat as the energy 
more or less goes up in smoke. There is also the costs of the GPU 
production. iirc gamers were pissed when the miners started buying up high 
end GPUs rather than using FPGAs. 

And now we are in the AI world, a technological solution that is still 
looking for a problem other than generating AI girlfriends. It too sucks 
down massive amounts of energy to produce a non-tangible 'product'.

Welcome to the dark satanic mills v 2.0. Somehow I don't think solar 
panels and wind turbines are enough to power Joe Sixpack's Tesla, bitcoin 
wallet, and ChatGPT buddy. I suppose it's way to late to cut the shit and 
go back to making toasters and other useful stuff.

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