New datacenters should be heavily regulated for emissions (including sound) and water consumption and should provide their own power as much as possible (renewables and SMRs come to mind).
Except for AI, fuck those.
Agree entirely about the regulation, that’s lagging everywhere.
SMRs are a distraction. Lots of little, less effective nuclear generation doesn’t fix the problems nuclear faces - the waste (yeah, smrs still make nuclear waste!) and cost / approval / certification timelines. by the time we waste years fiddling with SMRs we could buildout huge swathes of renewables that work today.
New datacenters should be heavily regulated for emissions (including sound) and water consumption and should provide their own power as much as possible (renewables and SMRs come to mind).
Except for AI, fuck those.
Agree entirely about the regulation, that’s lagging everywhere.
SMRs are a distraction. Lots of little, less effective nuclear generation doesn’t fix the problems nuclear faces - the waste (yeah, smrs still make nuclear waste!) and cost / approval / certification timelines. by the time we waste years fiddling with SMRs we could buildout huge swathes of renewables that work today.
Newer designs eat waste, don’t they?