Google plans to buy small nuclear reactors that don’t exist, to power AI that isn’t intelligent.
Let’s ask the nuclear semiotics experts to explain that to our descendants who will live with that high-level waste for 100,00+ years.
Saw the Aurora Borealis at the South Pole. Or was it, the Aurora Australias at the North Pole. Or just some disco lights at the Equator. Well, definitely now, on Earth looking at some things. There is a sky not far, I think above me.
"The UK's nuclear waste problem
Safety concerns as 'highly radioactive' material could be buried in the English countryside"
Choices have consequences. Some choices have consequences that last millennia…
#nuclear #NuclearPower #Sellafield
Large tech firms like Microsoft want the burdens of using #NuclearPower to remain on the state, and position themselves simply as customers for electricity for their AI and datafarm sites. They can afford to build their own nuclear plants, but would prefer the subsidies for construction are on the public, and all of the burdens of waste and decommissioning be on the taxpayers.
They know #nuclear is a terrible investment and burden, so they want you to take that on while they profit.
