The EU’s goal of ramping up data centre capacity is already driving more investment in nuclear energy projects as the bloc seeks to decarbonise and secure energy security at the same time, says the global investment firm.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2430150/europes-ai-demand-could-set-off-nuclear-energy-boom-says-jp-morgan

The EU’s goal of ramping up data centre capacity is already driving more investment in nuclear energy projects as the bloc seeks to decarbonise and secure energy security at the same time, says the global investment firm.

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The U.S. government has reaffirmed nuclear power as a key pillar of its long-term clean energy strategy a year or so ago, with the revival previously retired reactors and extensions of aging ones.

    Under president Jimmy Carter, who had had a job in nuclear safety in the navy or so, a nuclear meltdown of the Three Mile Island power plant in Harrisburg was barely stopped. Actually, the core did melt down because of a lack of cooling - it just didn’t went slightly critical as in Fukushima. It might have been only twenty minutes away.

    I am pretty sure the present orange in chief can oversee a muchbetter, much bigger, MAGNIFICIENT meltdown.