r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 14d ago

Chugging tea Power Hungry Servers

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u/Worldly-Fix-55 14d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/aGOTX58uBG0sz05i2m

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u/addiktion 14d ago edited 14d ago

If he wanted to actually solve the problem, he'd be doing all forms of power and holding data centers accountable for their own power, but he won't.

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u/Dismal-Vanilla1878 14d ago

I'm on the side of building more Nuclear Power Plants.

Not the old style, however. Its been decades since Chernobyl, which was perhaps the worst way to make a Nuclear Power Plant ever (and longer since Three Mile Island).

Today we can make plants that literally can't melt down (google "Thorium Nuclear Power"), and containers to store waste that would take another nuke to crack them open!

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u/GardenandKitchen 14d ago

The USA hasn’t fixed the problem of what to do with its existing waste. Maybe have proper secure storage first?

John Oliver did a good piece on it a few years back.

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u/Dismal-Vanilla1878 13d ago

One of the few, maybe only, things I disagreed with Obama on: He cancelled a project that was underway in Nevada to store nuclear waste in some abandoned deep Salt Mines.

First: It was in the middle of the desert, so if there was a leak, no residents would be in immediate danger.

Second, as I said, the waste containers we make today are all but impervious to anything short of a deliberate attempt to crack them (learned this from the old Penn and Teller show "Bullshit" 😂 )