Jack Chapple 
This is LAke Anna, in Virginia.
Apart from its beautiful cottage country environment, It’s a place that you could pass without a second thought. But something is happening here now, something that represents a massive shift in the way energy, power, and corporate control are evolving in the 21st century.
Amazon, a company you might associate more with next-day deliveries or endless movie recommendations, is making moves in a very different sector: nuclear energy. In a quiet but monumental deal, Amazon has bought up a nuclear reactor here in North Anna. It’s a head-turning development, yet it’s not entirely surprising.
Because Lake Anna is not alone.
In recent years, tech companies have begun buying nuclear reactors across the world. Just days ago, google announced it was buying and setting up nuclear reactors in california. Meanwhile, Microsoft followed suit with a reactor project on three mile island, a site that notoriously shut down after a partial nuclear meltdown. And let’s not forget aboutLarry Ellisons’s Oracle. Larry Ellison a few weeks ago said this on a strange earnings call.
“Let me say something that’s going to sound really bizarre…The location and the power place we’ve located, they’ve already got building permits for three nuclear reactors. These are the small modular nuclear reactors to power the data center. This is how crazy it’s getting. This is what’s going on.”
It’s not just the odd deal here or there. These purchases are part of a growing trend — tech giants are acquiring nuclear reactors as though they were grabbing prime real estate in Manhattan.
Why is this happening?
To understand, we have to rewind a bit. The tech industry today isn’t just about the gadgets in our pockets or the apps we use to navigate the world. It’s built on immense, unseen networks of data centers, high-performance computing clusters, and increasingly, artificial intelligence. And all these systems, in turn, rely on one thing: energy.
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A New Nuclear Age is Coming…
cheaper to buy a nuclear power plant to run retarded LLMs hallucinating on LSD apparently than hire a human that runs on the power of a low power LED lightbulb
This would be to support possible 1 terabyte of storage per user. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft, Google LLC and Apple would consider this into the future.
Water that is used in reactor or any thermal power plant cooling does not disappear, it just gets a bit warmer and the extra heat moves on to the environment, so it's still an endless resource.
Many of the future molten salt reactors will be cooled by molten salt. Only at the power generation stage does the molten salt have to exchange heat to another medium, water/steam or better still super critical CO2. The higher the temperature of the reactor, the higher the efficiency of the power generation cycle, with close to 60% being possible in CO2 systems.
Todays water cooled reactors run at a miserable 33% or so and water is not a good coolant for reactors because it generally has to be pressurized since it needs to work with reactors at around 350c, while molten salt reactors can run around 700c or more without pressure. Various molten salts can be in liquid state from around 400c to 1600c.
After the AI rush for electricity, we could start seeing nuclear desalination on a large scale where potable water is difficult.
This is why I wonder why Iceland hasn't tried to entice the major players in AI to build data centers in that country. There is a huge amount of untapped geothermal energy that could be used to power these data centers, and Iceland could be connected back to the rest of the world with a lot more high-speed undersea optical fiber data lines.
I’m starting to think big brainer tech CEOs know nothing about nukes and are just getting duped. Nuclear reactors are not cheap, miniaturization just makes them more expensive. We already have small ones, in submarines. But they are more expensive. So why can these start ups make them cheaper?
Bullshit.
They need nuclear energy to Power AI data progression… duh! 🙄
F*ck AI, where can I move to live tech free? I am completely tired of big tech companies and everything they are doing to our lives.
this is bullshit because nuclear energy is the cheapest form of energy we the people should have this energy source before this major coordinations nuclear for everyone before companies… they will save so much money and pay less than us the people
aww yeah they should be able to fastrack all the red tape as long as safe right 🙂
Just wait. Now that these far left companies are embracing nuclear, the MSM narrative will completely change the current far left perception. The sheeple that listen to msnbc, cnn, abc, cbs, pbs, etc, and believe anything and everything the MSM editorializes, will obediently fall in line and become anti-anti-nuclear protestors. They’re no strangers to doing what they’re told – they’ll forget what they passionately believed in, in a fraction of a second, and blindly follow their new instructions.
Which is great, since nuclear fission is the best and only solution we have right now, and it’s a GREAT solution! And it will completely change the prevailing climate science hoax, and actually do something for Earth – because the Earth has feelings and is a sentient being.
What’s irritating is the far left will of course take credit for ‘saving the planet’ as they’ve been the (new) champions since the 50s in their green quest to rewrite history…via Wikipedia, of course. Oh, and it will be Trump’s fault it took so long to go nuclear.
Even Germany will get back onboard amd re-open all the nuclear plants that Trump shut down.
Much the same reasoning about the long-term effectiveness of EVs applies to Nuclear Power, and to Civilization in general, you have a rough road to build it, after which it then relies on constant reiteration upgrades. Do or die ordinary existence in Actuality.
It’s a smart move. If the war on fossil fuel succeeds, nuclear is the ONLY option left. Wind and solar are rainbows and unicorns.
And if the carelessness of EV mandates persists, there will be a need for 100s of more nuclear power plants. Globally, there probably isn’t enough copper to conduct the electricity needed.
The high talk is they are buying up these plants to power up AI. This to me sounds risky and dangerous. I have it on my news list on why it’s being done.
Im going on chatGPT after watching this nonsense just because you made me want to do it
Finally people are waking up to the fact that nuclear makes more sense
This has been known and unacknowledged by most people, I do not understand why we keep pushing for Solar and wind those are just not reliable. The thing that underpins all of this is the Mining, transport, smelting and processing of the materials needed to even do any of this. I also have an issue with the amount and resistance to new mining and processing plants here in the USA, we continually export all the really dirty stuff to those countries with less regulations. I see coal trains from Wyoming being exported to China so they can generate electricity for the production of metals and solar panels. For wind where are we producing all the copper and metal components. All of this is insanity once you start to truly acknowledge it as a whole.
First BTC boiled the oceans, now AI is going to evaporate them! Nice it will lower the sea level. Counting on ‘not so clean’ nukes won’t be so reliable. As half of the time nukie installations are out due to age and impossible repairs.With all the ‘not payed’ taxes the big players can give it a go…who’s gonna do the QC … and the Fusion fable just started a next 30yrs cycle . .
Reality is stronger than ideology!
Why say "bought up" if it was just one plant?
This is so dumb…we are destroying ourselves…the entire world doesn't need AI… there's nothing wrong with living a simple and joyful life…AI and modernism should be only regional in order to keep the planet and ecosystem healthy
Instead of wasting a billion dollars on a bastardized version of Tolkien, Amazon should have invested more into nuclear power years ago.
I hope we all know that it doesn't matter who is in the 'top job' because this is a systemic problem – greed. We have allowed many of our economic sectors, to take advantage of the American people. It's disgusting and frightening for the future of our country. My wife and I will be retiring in the next two years n another country. We are absolutely worried that SSI will no longer be funded. we'll have to rely on his pension, a 403 (b) and a very prolific Investment account with my Tracy Britt Cool Consulting my FA. Our national debt is bloating and expanding every month. Our government needs to get spending under control and cut the federal budget.
I am fully behind nuclear, my only worry with this is that private corporations are actually doing this not just for their own power but to own PUBLIC power which should be fully illegal including private ownership of ANY type of public power. Also starting to seem like AI should be illegal based on resources it uses & the evil purposes it's used for….
This is a concern for this type of energy to be in the hands of Tech Giants. I encourage all Govts to analyze the objectives of the Tech Giants in terms of putting populations on the planet at nuclear risk. Also how will the uranium rods be disposed of with radioactive properties. META Microsoft Google Oracle etc. Needs to appear before the US Govt in open debate and questioning fir such an undertaking .
Is this video AI generated ?