Yeah, right after they've burned a trillion gallons of diesel in diesel generators to power the data centers.

The EU's reaction to AI has been so sad. Hard to keep hope when the only sane region in the world is also fully on board.

Bullshit. They won't wait that long.

Anything but solar huh? I guess it's a start.

nuclear business bros crawled so AI business bros could fly.

Note to journalists: please don’t put “nuclear” and “boom” in the same sentence. Thanks.

"Nuclear" and "Boom" shouldn't be used in the same sentence.

What if we used that nuclear energy to phase out coal and oil?

It will have to be seen whether the EU sees a nuclear boom, but globally we will see this I am afraid. The two countries leading the AI race at the moment definitely will: The U.S. government has reaffirmed nuclear power as a key pillar of its long-term clean energy strategy a year or so ago, with the revival previously retired reactors and extensions of aging ones.

And China has joined a pledge to triple global nuclear energy capacity by 2050 which stemmed from the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, also known as COP28,

... The installed [nuclear] capacity has been growing at a remarkable rate in China, the future home of just under half of the world’s nuclear reactors currently under construction .... [China's nuclear] capacity addition should accelerate [by 2030, according to China's current five-year plan], as the State Council has been approving 10 or more new reactor units annually since 2022 ...