Hi Watchers!
Do you think that carbon-free power from nuclear generation makes possible data center growth that would otherwise be impossible? Amazon and Microsoft are investing in new nuclear generation, and it may be their only path to fully powering their growing data center fleet without growing greenhouse gas emissions.
I return to the fact that it is not just their reported corporate emissions that are reduced — it is the world’s greenhouse gas emissions growth that is slowed.
Today, given a choice between the climate change anvil that is falling on our heads and the nuclear waste rock that could drop on our toe, I will take the rock. Climate action decisions are painful — even harmful — and never simple. Just necessary.
What do you think?