Because the real goal isn't "think of children" but "correlate people tracking better for data brokers, police, intelligence agencies, and political reasons."
A bunch of Boeing 737 NGs (-6xx, -7xx, -8xx, -9xx) with sketchy "approved" structural parts that were supposed to be CNCed were roughly fabricobbled by Ducommun and hammered into place by Boeing factory workers put the flying public at risk in unknowable ways.
$17.5 billion might build one nuclear plant. The thing is, getting insurance, investment, and waiting 15 years to construct it make it not so easy to open a plant. Better off deploying solar and BESS/PES that's cheaper, cleaner, and less perilous.