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Google and MS are paying a bunch of money today for nuclear power that may not even pan out and if it does will likely cost substantially more than electricity does today. I suspect they're betting that electricity will become both more expensive *and* less reliable over the next decade. Seems like a safe bet.

The other, perhaps more sinister part of this is that they don't want anyone else to have a say in what they use electricity for.

Tech giants set to pay through the nose for nuclear power that's still years away
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/10/18/big_tech_nuclear_power/