It's short sighted too. If they installed a lot of batteries and renewables at the site, at least they would have something of value when the AI bubble bursts and the rest of the site gets scrapped.

Indeed, game studios know about licencing issues and these days often add a "streaming friendly" mode which replaces any licensed music and visuals so that streamers don't get copyright claims.

Also the licence must include an earliest end date, before which the servers cannot be shut off without triggering a full refund.

I've seen clothing with built in cooling in Japan, aimed at people who work outside. A little fan circulates air, and some of pockets for ice packs. Of course, that doesn't work in a space suit.

They never learn, this happens again and again every time some new technology is developed. Photography, fingerprints, DNA, phone call tracing, CCTV, surveillance doorbells, Tasers, pepper spray, zip tie handcuffs, every tool the police get is abused until they have some expensive losses. Not just the US either, it happens in the UK too.

Batteries are probably more practical for this, and can serve as a backup for them too.

Flywheels are used, but a better place to put them is old fossil fuel plants. They already have a lot of the infrastructure. Ireland has converted some, and I'm sure other places too.

I'm sure they have adequate protection for their equipment. The problem is everyone else's. If they switch off a large amount of power consumption suddenly, the generators supplying them are instantly putting too much power into the grid, and need to ramp down. Of course many of them can't ramp down very fast, and even things like batteries can only respond as fast as they can detect the problem happening some distance away, so the voltage goes up and the frequency wonders off.

Brown outs are bad, voltage spikes are much worse.

They aren't going to help the grid stay balanced if they aren't forced to. That would be a cost they could avoid.

The Chinese ones are subsidized, they are hit with tariffs.

EVs have been cheaper to own for a long time in Europe, especially the Chinese ones which are often cheaper to buy in the first place too. The amount you save depends on if you can charge at home, but it's always better than a fossil over any reasonable period of ownership.

Their economic analysis is BS. For example, they discount the cost of "shared" infrastructure, but clearly there is a cost because it has to be built, and scaled to the number of reactors they want to install. At only 300MW each, they will want quite a few of them to make the economics better.

The increased cost of waste handling and refuelling is not properly accounted for either.

Sodium is a rather nasty medium to use as coolant. It corrodes, and spontaneously catches fire on contact with air. Attempts have been made in the past, ending in expensive failures.

For what investment in GPUs?

Typically when rent seeking, the rent is a fraction of the cost of the asset. Some assets appreciate like houses, some depreciate like GPUs.

That was the original idea with numbers stations, so it was a natural evolution. Owning a consumer radio was not suspicious, so broadcasting on standard civilian frequencies made sense.

The "random" data in the GPS signal is supposedly there to aid with reception and validate the RNGs on the satellites, but it was a pretty obvious place to hide messages too. I'm sure all the other GNSS systems do it too.

They are building a BWRX-300, for around $21 billion Canadian. It's a prototype, so high costs are expected I suppose.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation has some issues with their design too: https://www.onr.org.uk/media/b...

It's mostly the usual stuff. The control rods aren't proven to be failure proof, and we have seen accidents due to them not inserting, or getting stuck, before. There isn't enough don't to evaluate loss of coolant faults, another known failure mode. While they don't rely on pumps to circulate the coolant (it's by convection), they still need it to circulate to avoid meltdown. It must circulate through cooling systems like pools or towers.

Good luck to them, but it seems very unlikely that it will be economically viable in the end.