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The tax breaks in the Inflation Recovery Act are crucial to making the deal economically feasible, according to Constellation. They provide a credit for every megawatt hour of nuclear energy produced.

lmao so instead of this funding the energy transition it’s just subsidizing the AI grift

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      this

      There’s also the energy usage around obsessively gripe-posting about AI to consider.

      This is why we need a watts-used-per-unit-of-entertainment scale going so we can determine a treat hierarchy.

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        Reaching hard to run interference for those treat printers again, aren’t you?

        obsessively

        The billionaires that own the most environmentally devastating data centers and the techbro startups that keep propping up new ones will probably manage just fine without your stanning for them.

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          Little known fact: If one can Musk-post exactly ten thousand times, it results in an insta-kill, freeing the denizens of earth from his tyrannical grasp once and for all.

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                There’s also the energy usage around obsessively gripe-posting about AI to consider.

                This is why we need a watts-used-per-unit-of-entertainment scale going so we can determine a treat hierarchy.

                “Homie,” concern trolling in defense of treat printers and baiting me seems to be the sum of your post history.

                considered poor forum etiquette tsk tsk

                You already have the tech inevitabilism beliefs of a typical redditor (VR boardrooms everywhere, everyone wearing AR glasses, maybe even NFTs being the old hits that you probably also latched on to before) and now you’re doing the civility concern trolling attempts of a typical redditor too.

                Are you even a leftist? Proselytizing for billionaire tech grifts under “stop criticizing the ruling class and its excesses, it’s going to happen anyway” sophistry doesn’t seem like it.

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                  Leftism is obsessively AI and musk posting as if it were a full time job, and the more you do that the more leftist you are.

                  Remind the people why you had to take like a year off from posting (during which time the site was noticeably less annoying). Was it because you’re too confrontational and were getting into to many heated arguments with people about stupid shit?

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      It’s probably still a problem, but I think a lot more overall entertainment value comes out of the same amount of electricity use and carbon waste in bideo bames than in hitting a prompt button over and over again to get a satisfactory cyberpunkerino waifu to go with the hundreds to thousands already in the spank bank folder.

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          I don’t think Microsoft is trying to reopen a power plant because theres some sort of modernist gooning wave happening, but I could be wrong.

          It is a small part of it, but the larger part of it is primarily coming from expansions of the corporate surveillance state and even more data collection, not like that’s better.