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Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by mlfreeman on Monday March 04, 2024 @08:40PM (#39598443)
The headline sounds a lot more supervillain-ish than the article. Probably done on purpose in pursuit of the almighty click.
Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by Dylan16807 on Monday March 04, 2024 @08:45PM (#39598477)
What's supervillain-ish about a company owning a datacenter and adjacent power plant?
Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by TaylorAlexander on Monday March 04, 2024 @11:25PM (#39599439)
Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @01:16AM (#39600009)
Is the implication that nuclear power plants are inherently supervillainous?

If amazon buys a power plant, my only thoughts about an increase in villainy from the status quo fall into the "monopoly" category.

Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by preisschild on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:15AM (#39601489)
Nah

But Dr. No had a pool type reactor :D

Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by TaylorAlexander on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @04:04PM (#39609142)
I mean, I take the comment about supervillains as mostly a joke, so I don’t really feel a need to strictly interrogate it for factual accuracy.

But also I do think it fits. Looking at super villains, they’re usually just powerful people with slightly unusual property, who also happen to be evil.

Lex Luthor’s company Lexcorp was an aerospace company. In the first Superman movie, Luthor was a pretty weird and relatively unremarkable guy. In the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies the super villain was just a guy with a global media company who created calamity and murder so that he could report on it first.

Nuclear power and radiation have often been themes for comic book heroes and villains. I think it’s reasonable to read the (misleading) headline and think “oh great now Bezos owns a nuclear power plant, he’s going to become a super villain” as the sort of non-serious comment prevalent on the internet. People say the same about Musk all the time.

I don’t think it’s meant to be taken literally.