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Can U.S. Tech Giants Deliver on the Promise of Nuclear Power? (www.cfr.org)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is just the peak power. The average power is much less. And batteries can maybe work on a grid scale for smoothing, but not for an individual consumer like a data center.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

These are grid scale projects. Each one is designed to power 100s of thousands of homes.

Based on the data I can find, 35MW datacenters are what AI will require by 2030. The project I linked above could power 20+ of them at once by itself.