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The tax breaks in the Inflation Recovery Act are crucial to making the deal economically feasible, according to Constellation. They provide a credit for every megawatt hour of nuclear energy produced.

lmao so instead of this funding the energy transition it's just subsidizing the AI grift

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[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

It's probably still a problem, but I think a lot more overall entertainment value comes out of the same amount of electricity use and carbon waste in bideo bames than in hitting a prompt button over and over again to get a satisfactory cyberpunkerino waifu to go with the hundreds to thousands already in the spank bank folder.

[-] polpotkin@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

I don't think Microsoft is trying to reopen a power plant because theres some sort of modernist gooning wave happening, but I could be wrong.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

I don't think Microsoft is trying to reopen a power plant because theres some sort of modernist gooning wave happening, but I could be wrong.

It is a small part of it, but the larger part of it is primarily coming from expansions of the corporate surveillance state and even more data collection, not like that's better.

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