nixCraft 🐧Mar 7, 2024

Amazon just bought a 100% nuclear-powered data center: One of the US’s largest nuclear power plants will directly power cloud service provider Amazon Web Services’ new data center.

https://electrek.co/2024/03/05/amazon-just-bought-a-100-nuclear-powered-data-center/

Amazon just bought a 100% nuclear-powered data center

One of the US's largest nuclear power plants will directly power cloud service provider Amazon Web Services' new data center.

Electrek
Show threadLars  Mar 7, 2024
@nixCraft And what about the atomic waste?
Show threadAmikkeMar 7, 2024
@lemba @nixCraft you mean the 5 grams or so it will directly produce over its lifetime? I think we'll survive. Quick reminder that nuclear power plants produce less nuclear waste per megawatt than coal power plants, and take better care of it. Also, 0 CO2.
Show threadLars  Mar 7, 2024
@Amikke @nixCraft Sad to see that nuclear energy still finds it's believers...
https://www.greenamerica.org/fight-dirty-energy/amazon-build-cleaner-cloud/10-reasons-oppose-nuclear-energy
10 Reasons to Oppose Nuclear Energy

Nuclear energy produces less carbon than fossil fuels, but you may not know the dangers and downsides. Find out why renewables beat nuclear.

Green America
Show threadAmikkeMar 7, 2024
@lemba @nixCraft you mean glad, right? Sorry, can't read the article due to their donate button taking 1/4th of my phone's screen, but pretty much all actually green organisations are proponents of nuclear due to its lowest impact on the environment and those that oppose it are usually the Germany case - literally paid off or even funded by oil industry giants.
Show threadLuap314

@Amikke @lemba @nixCraft what green Organisations are proponents of nuclear energy?

Most that I interact with don't say anything about it or are against it.

Mar 7, 2024 at 11:09amMastodon for Android
Show threadAmikkeMar 7, 2024

@Luap314 @lemba @nixCraft alright, I went overboard with that one, I forgot that there's sadly a deplorably big group of well-meaning green organisations that oppose it due to plain ignorance and fear, and the pro-nuclear green movement is only a sub-group, even if big, growing and scientifically supported.

Events like entire green organisations or their parts being funded by oil magnates, and high-ranking politicians behind Energiewende being allegedly bribed with Gazprom positions for making Germany shut down its nuclear plants in favour of Russian gas and the promise that it's only temporary and they're totally gonna replace all of it with renewables any day now certainly don't help.

Show threadLuap314Mar 7, 2024
@Amikke @lemba @nixCraft oh, by "What green Organisations are proponents [...]" I didn't mean that I think none of them are, I was genuinely asking because there surely are some but I don't know any
Show threadAmikkeMar 7, 2024
@Luap314 @lemba @nixCraft seems like most of them are explicitly focusing on the pro-nuclear aspect. I'm familiar with Polish ones such as Zielony Atom, but according to Wikipedia there's a bunch of international ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-nuclear_movement#Organizations_supporting_nuclear_power. That part of the article seems to be heavily US-centric tho, so there are likely some EU-based that it's missing.
Pro-nuclear movement - Wikipedia