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Bluesky copy of Aaron Rupar's tweet:
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lggcwhjaos2g
Link to tweet
Trump is serious about this, btw.
Ocelot II
(122,615 posts)Hugin
(35,339 posts)I was previously diagnosed by Dr Musk. My brain is as damaged as they come. It's a miracle that I'm even able to type this.
brush
(58,662 posts)He doesn't even know how environmentally stupid that is.
OLDMDDEM
(2,238 posts)Docreed2003
(18,023 posts)Because you damn sure know he didn't come up with this himself!
highplainsdem
(53,605 posts)Sam Altman has reportedly considered small nuclear plants near them. I'm guessing coal plants would be much easier to build.
AI's going to do a lot of damage to the environment, but AI bros are saying our only hope of saving the planet is to give them everything they want and then someday ASI (superintelligent AI) will miraculously be born and will save all the stupid humans and their planet - as well as make us immortal, godlike, hybrid man-machine beings who will go forth and conquer the universe.
Just trust them...
angrychair
(10,080 posts)Both Microsoft and eLoon have been approved for their AI server farms to have their own personal nuclear reactors to power them.
The idea of coal fire power plant will not come close to the power requirements, the stability or the cost effectiveness to be viable solution. Again, his limited child-like understanding of issues makes him dangerous.
highplainsdem
(53,605 posts)Think. Again.
(21,186 posts)Omnipresent
(6,614 posts)Next is where did our grandparents and their station wagons go?
Im mean it was the 1960s or 1970s and none of them are around anymore, for some mysterious reason?
Bernardo de La Paz
(52,269 posts)highplainsdem
(53,605 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(52,269 posts)Ball is in your court. You have a link to a serious policy proposal?
highplainsdem
(53,605 posts)to slash regulations. You know Trump likes "clean coal."
The AI bros talked a lot about clean energy before the election. They don't have to commit to it now. Especially if they can't wait several years for power from small nuclear reactors.
Bernardo de La Paz
(52,269 posts)It's tRump BS.
I asked for a link to a serious policy proposal and you come up with gas turbines that have nothing to do with serious policy proposals on coal power plants.
highplainsdem
(53,605 posts)As you would know if you'd read the news about that in recent months. But it's still not enough for the projected demand. A couple of examples.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/ai_datacenters_coal/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-25/ai-needs-so-much-power-that-old-coal-plants-are-sticking-around
Article about what Trump said today:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/trump-says-he-will-approve-ai-power-plants-using-emergency-declaration.html
surfered
(4,661 posts)..we must wear them on the outside.
highplainsdem
(53,605 posts)Rebl2
(15,446 posts)Botany
(73,043 posts)My guess is draw attention away from his
admission that Musk was working with the
vote counting computers aka central tabulators.
highplainsdem
(53,605 posts)Think. Again.
(21,186 posts)highplainsdem
(53,605 posts)Think. Again.
(21,186 posts)"Amazon, Google make dueling nuclear investments to power data centers with clean energy"
https://apnews.com/article/climate-data-centers-amazon-google-nuclear-energy-e404d52241f965e056a7c53e88abc91a
highplainsdem
(53,605 posts)power plants can be built much faster, especially if regulations are slashed, as Trump and Musk intend to do.
Think. Again.
(21,186 posts)...which won't be built for several years, includes the additional Small Nuclear Reactors as part of the plans.
highplainsdem
(53,605 posts)companies that can complete data centers earlier to wait to use nuclear power or other clean energy.
Trump being elected changed everything there.
LakeVermilion
(1,246 posts)with multiple coal plants. One in Rosemount, one in Farmington, another in Chaska and perhaps Hampton. Just drive southeast on US 52 and there will be a string of data centers between the Koch Refinery and Cannon Falls. It will be quite a site with those "clean coal" plants adjacent to the massive buildings.
allegorical oracle
(3,893 posts)audience this a.m. (Also spent a ton of his speech degrading Biden and bragging about his yuge election victory.) Disgusting and revolting.
highplainsdem
(53,605 posts)Ocelot II
(122,615 posts)and that windmills cause cancer.
highplainsdem
(53,605 posts)JI7
(91,255 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(528 posts)Or better yet, do a rally in one!
Faux pas
(15,505 posts)in the -100% zone. They gonna crunch up the coal and push it thru the wiring? The unstable geni-ass strikes again. He makes the dub look like Einstein.
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)You wanted another season of the reality TV clownshow and his circus, right?