Big technology companies see this energy source as a way to satisfy their extremely high power demand, which has skyrocketed since the advent of AI
    • Railcar8095@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Just one note, nuclear power plants run at around 35% efficiency. This is because they are basically steam generators and tend to not push as hard for safety. I think they can get up to 40-45% with combined cycles and such, but then we are in the “very large” territory

    • bitwaba@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Large scale data centers, like the ones that end up in the news for FAANG are ~100 megawatt footprints.

      I have no idea where you’re getting 3.4 megawatts as the largest data center in the US, but that is wildly undersized.