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   Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 19:25:19 JST Baldur Bjarnason

   The thing to note about Amazon or Google making agreements to buy energy from nuclear reactors that haven't been built yet is that nuclear reactors are either megaprojects that take 10-20 years from plan to completion or vaporware with untested designs and uncertain timelines and are unlikely to come online before 2035. Even extending existing reactors, theoretically the simplest kind of these projects, often run over on time and budget and end up taking a decade to get running

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     Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 19:25:18 JST Baldur Bjarnason

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     Aside: I don’t think people realise just how fragile our political and economic systems are or how fast the chaos in our weather systems is escalating

     My personal assumption these days is that any major plan that’s scheduled to come to fruition in the mid to late 2030s is probably never going to happen. I have days where I think even that’s optimistic

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     Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 19:25:19 JST Baldur Bjarnason

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     These announcements are mostly theatrics. They don’t address the harms done by their data centre demands. The timeline means they'll happen after the climate crisis is in full swing and its chaos makes the plan even less likely to come true.

     Also, what are the odds of tech cos ever sticking to a single coherent strategy for 10 quarters, let alone ten or twenty years?

     Warner Crocker repeated this.