AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement

Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by londons_explore on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:23AM (#46255162)

Market forces will fix this.

AI compute will go to places where energy is cheap

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Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by alecco on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:57AM (#46255473)

> Market forces will fix this.

You can't print energy and you can't print infra. Nine women can't have a baby in a month.

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Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by mistrial9 on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:31AM (#46255220)

sixty five datacenters under construction in Chile, right now

source: Chile National Data Centers Plan | 2024-2030 MinCiencia Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation

note - this is "promoting the sustainable growth of the data center industry" .. you know it has to be sustainable

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Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by ikekkdcjkfke on Saturday December 13, 2025 @11:21AM (#46255677)

Is the universe sustainable though

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Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by rationalist on Saturday December 13, 2025 @11:41AM (#46255870)

http://www.thelastquestion.net

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Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by alecco on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:56AM (#46255463)

All those are bold announcements by politicians. There are a lot of things to do and it takes many years in Latin America. Also there is no spare grid and electricity generation is kind of in the middle of nowhere. Good luck with constructing a datacenter in there, and then having technical employees to maintain it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for those plans. But it will take 5 to 10 years while China has a 15 year headstart.

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