OK, but in the 1970s the French Government also took 6 years to build each of the 37 reactors they built in a decade - and their safety record is fine.

You can build a safe and reliable reactor in 6 years if you get on with the job.

The delay to UK reactors is entirely because of NIMBYs and inconsistent decision-making.

Once you actually commit to building a reactor and stay committed, it takes 4-6 years from zero to sending power to the grid. This is about the same time as any other large scale construction project - large bridges, large railway tunnels, large airports, etc.

The AGR lives again!

The finest British technolgy.

Require the datacentre builders or AI companies to pay for transmission grid upgrades to the whole grid to add the capacity they need.

Then when the bubble collapses, we will at least be left with a greatly upgraded electricity grid that we can use to transit cheap renewable power to consumers, replacing expensive gas and petroleum energy sources.

The article specifically says that Google intend to launch this into a sun-synchronous orbit meaning there are few or no dark periods during which heat can easily be radiated away.

How are they planning to dissipate the heat from all this computing? It's a significant problem in space especially if your orbit is in the sun all the time.

The level of 996 grind that is likely to be required at any techbro startup will not leave time to do anything other than further enrich Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and their co-owners.

... until these people find out about the cement production industry and the steel industry.

That has long been the case for large industrial users in many places, where they agree to either reduce their electricity usage or use on-site supplies of electricity when grid generating capacity is constrained - often in return for a cheaper electricity price. Large industrial users used to be steelworks, foundries, chemical plants, etc, but now they're datacentres.

Except Elon Musk was running his "AI" datacentre on gas turbines fulltime for months until he got a grid connection. He clearly thought it was worth it, though just because Elmo does it is no guarantee at all that it is economically viable.

The Proenergy PE6000 mentioned above runs on natural gas, so your comments about diesel or JP1 aren't relevant.

References:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.datacenterdynamics...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.datacenterdynamics...

the better it will be. This idiotic "grind culture" idea needs to die, soon, and take as many of the "AI" bros down as possible.

Of course crypto anything is a scam, but I hear the N Korean guys who get the tech jobs actually work pretty well at the tech problems, so they do kinda earn their salaries, Who knows what else they're stealing from the company while they work, but apparently they do actually do the coding they're paid for.

Looks rather like Calcifer.

In many cities it is a self-solving problem: someone will soon take the phone from your back pocket, making you much more comfortable in the seat department. However you will be less satisfied in the telephony department as you now need to buy a new phone.

These criminal enterprises in the Golden Triangle area that involve defrauding people (as opposed to the ones that involve, say, drug trafficking) are often using enslaved Chinese citizens to defraud other Chinese citizens. The Chinese (PRC) Government is actually concerned about this, as the fraud levelshat h are high enough to cause domestic discontent.

This would be an actual opportunity for the US Government to build some collaboration, instead of conflict, with the PRC Government over an issue that they are both concerned about and that has no domestic downside for either of them... if they wanted to. Especially, if the US wanted to.