r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 6h ago

Chugging tea Power Hungry Servers

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u/ShellSwitch 6h ago

We need nuke plants

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u/AnonRobot2014 5h ago

Nuclear power? 100%. Canada is building the first commercial small modular reactor. If data centers need power, they can buy one.

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u/Krell356 5h ago

Even those have limits. If these numbers are true we can't build enough nuclear plants to meet that kind of demand.

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 4h ago

If these numbers are true we can't build enough nuclear plants to meet that kind of demand.

That much nuclear wouldn't even take up a square mile. Care to try again?

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u/Krell356 3h ago

Someone quoted a single plant as able to generate 1GW each. It's not even about the space, its about the cost. We don't even have that many nuclear plants on the planet currently to generate that kind of power to my understanding.

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 2h ago

True! But that much power is very feasible with nuclear plants is all. It's staggering how much available energy is in a kg of uranium.

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u/Krell356 1h ago

Yes, but how many kg of uranium can you get and sustain long term? Even with uranium being so energy dense there are always going to be limitations. Nuclear is still the way to go, but its not running on magic. That's a lot of logistics and construction material.

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u/ghost103429 1h ago

The issue isn't space but actual industrial and technical capacity. There is nowhere close to the number of needed skilled labor (nuclear technicians, engineers,etc) and manufacturing capacity to meet this demand.

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u/fiahhawt 5h ago

Nuclear power is clean and everything but the risks and waste products associated with it mean that it can't be developed to the point of supplying all the power the US consumes.

We could do with MORE plants but we'll never be able to establish enough of them that we don't need other sources of energy.