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At this point we have to be glad it's not coal. After all we have a president that just passed an executive order to foster the "Beautiful Clean Coal Industry"

> At this point we have to be glad it's not coal.

it will be if the coal price drops far enough

For something to be considered "sad", there needs to be an available, practical alternative. What should they have chosen instead?

We could not build new data centers and focus on fixing the real issues instead.

We could always revisit this decision once clean power is actually available.

Cover the roof in solar panels and use the power to do something useful instead of running bullshit generators.

Or maybe a park with some oak trees and a frisbee golf course idk.

Far better than xAI's data center being powered by mobile Diesel generators

xAI is natural gas, not diesel.

Decades of lies about nuclear has its downsides.

It's either that or nuclear.

False equivalence bias

Dunning–Kruger effect

You say that as if nuclear was bad?

Not at all. I think it's probably the best option if you want guaranteed electricity.