The transnational elite keeps trying to force proles to use unreliable wind and solar power. 

But as their own power needs escalate, the "net zero" Big Tech companies that brag about their use of renewable power are turning to reliable nuclear power to ensure their data centers stay up. 

Data centers draw an enormous amount of power already (who knew?), but now that AI systems are being rolled out the power needs are growing by a factor of 10. 

More than that, really, since that only accounts for the increase in power use for each query; as AI gets rolled out into more and more products the power needs will keep growing exponentially. 

For years the power draw of data centers has been an issue, driving Big Tech companies to switch away from Intel x86 chips to ones that sip less power, such as ARM chips. Facebook, Google, and Amazon have been designing their own chips for years to reduce power draw and decrease heat production, but the new chips that power AI (mainly from NVidea) are ramping up the power draw considerably. 

Silicon Valley progressives buy up nuclear reactors to power their AI and data center needs

When it came down to needing energy, the climate change warriors didn’t go “renewable” but went for reliability and affordability.https://t.co/v5j92xfQc9 pic.twitter.com/7tWQeJ7TA4

— Trump2024_no_matter_what (@TexasTrump2024) October 18, 2024

News broke recently that Microsoft was restarting Three Mile Island--ironically--to power its data center. Think of that: a massive nuclear plant basically dedicated to providing power for one purpose, and news is coming out about Amazon and Facebook investing in nuclear reactors to power their computing centers. 

Two weeks ago it was Microsoft reviving Three Mile Island’s nuclear plant. Now Google is buying seven small modular reactors, and Amazon is  spending $500 million USD on part of a nuclear energy company.

Too bad for the deplorables who get stuck with the expensive wind-solar-battery clunker spaghetti-grid forced on them by the arts graduates in Parliament. An AI datacentre needs all the same thing a human city does — cheap gigawatts, 24 hours a day. The number-nerd men with money have all decided the cheapest reliable answer to running their AI data center cities, while pretending to fix the weather, is nuclear power. (Coal, of course, is cheaper which is why China uses so much, but it’s against the religion).

The unwashed masses won’t get that choice, of course, to sign up with whatever generator they want. Only the uber rich get that kind of luck.

Every one of these tech giants could have poured that money into wind farms and gardens of solar panels, backed up with acres of batteries and ten thousand miles of high voltage towers, pumped hydro, and synchronous condenser flywheels. But none of them want to pour in their own billions anymore, despite the social credit points bonanza and the bragging rights that would bring.

For twenty years these same people have been pushing the renewable hard sell on us, now overnight, without so much as a “sorry” they’ve all flipped, leaving us holding the can of decrepit national grids that can’t do what they were designed to do.

You can't blame these companies for going nuclear, and I am not at all bothered that they have. I love nuclear power. It is clean and even more renewable than solar or wind since the infrastructure lasts nearly forever and the fuel, if reprocessed, can last a very long time indeed. Solar and wind are unreliable, and the infrastructure has a very short lifespan. And nuclear plants don't get destroyed by a hailstorm or tornado. 

What Hurricane Milton did to a Duke Energy solar farm in Florida. https://t.co/3JJuQPHo2d pic.twitter.com/w2QV5WA9l7

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) October 13, 2024

I'm glad they are going nuclear. What I am pissed about is that the very people who are doing so have been wagging their fingers at us, trying (and too often succeeding) to get us to use unreliable power. 

Reliable power for me, not for thee. 

Wind is pretty stupid, but solar has some great applications for off-the-grid power generation. As a niche product, I think solar power is cool. As a way to generate power for the grid, it is ridiculous. The cost-per-kilowatt numbers are cooked like you wouldn't believe, so forget the phony stats. Wind and solar are expensive when you include all the costs, and they make the grid unstable. 

Big tech companies understand these problems and only use solar and wind for show. They use reliable power for themselves, as do all the hypocrites who want to shove renewables at us. Even home solar systems use the grid as a backup because nobody wants to rely on the wind or the sun to keep the refrigerator going. 

To the Big Tech companies, I say: have at it. Build all the nuclear you want. But for God's sake, quit lecturing the rest of us about "renewable" energy and send some of your expensive lobbyists to help convince regulators to start approving nuclear plants for everybody.