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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:17PM (#50473557)
What they get out of not having the nuclear power plant is not getting unexplained cancer in 10 or 20 years.

You can tell them as much as you want how safe nuclear power is. You may even be right. But after Fukushima, and Three Mile Island, and Chernobyl, they don't believe you that it will reliably stay safe forever.

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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by unrented7977 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:19PM (#50473591)
How about everyone living downstream of coal plants?
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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by amanaplanacanal on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:30PM (#50473757)
Coal plants are worse, of course. Thankfully they are so expensive to run that they are being shut down.
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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:35PM (#50473843)
You're giving a rational answer to peoples' emotional reaction to some very highly publicized events. That's not going to move their needle.
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