China Spending Billions to Stop AI, Data Centers in U.S.

[IroNat]

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/data-centers-ai-china/2026/06/03/id/1258500/?ns_mail_uid=841034b7-2450-4d83-8557-02790d5b5e85&ns_mail_job=DM973948_06042026&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010104m05ixo

[Irongrip400]

Neville Singham is a piece of shit and deserves impalement. 

[Humble Narcissist]

AI is the future so we better not neuter ourselves.

[IroNat]

Meanwhile, back at the (Bill Gates) ranch...

Microsoft launches incubator for Chinese tech startups — reigniting fears about cozy Beijing ties: ‘Makes no sense’

https://nypost.com/2026/06/08/business/microsoft-launches-incubator-for-chinese-tech-startups-reigniting-fears-about-cozy-beijing-ties-makes-no-sense/

[Humble Narcissist]

Meanwhile, back at the (Bill Gates) ranch...

Microsoft launches incubator for Chinese tech startups — reigniting fears about cozy Beijing ties: ‘Makes no sense’

https://nypost.com/2026/06/08/business/microsoft-launches-incubator-for-chinese-tech-startups-reigniting-fears-about-cozy-beijing-ties-makes-no-sense/

Of course the libtards in our country want to stop data centers in the U.S.

[GymnJuice]

Of course the libtards in our country want to stop data centers in the U.S.

Seems like investing into power plants would be a good bet if this is the wave of the future

[Primemuscle]

Of course the libtards in our country want to stop data centers in the U.S.

I don't want to stop data centers. But I do realize there is a strong possibility their high use of electricity will end up raising monthly electric bills for all ratepayers, including you and I. I expect there will be pushback from folks including those on the right about high electric rates. Everyone wants services. Noone wants to pay for them.

[Humble Narcissist]

Seems like investing into power plants would be a good bet if this is the wave of the future

They'd really shit if we built nuclear power plants to supply the AI centers with power.

[GymnJuice]

They'd really shit if we built nuclear power plants to supply the AI centers with power.

I went down the rabbit hole with this one. Some of them plan to incorporate little "mini nuke power plants" into the centers themselves. They are called small modular reactors.

https://tucson.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_82ce3fef-cf5c-481f-83ff-e8574934cd7d.html

Much of rural Arizona could soon be dotted with small "modular'' nuclear reactors.

Legislation approved by the Senate and awaiting a House vote would strip supervisors in Arizona's 13 rural counties — everywhere but Maricopa and Pima — from being able to use zoning or other land use regulations to prohibit the reactors from being located in certain places.

The measure is aimed, at least partly, at allowing these reactors to be placed where there used to be coal-fired power plants without additional review. The idea is that there already is the infrastructure, mainly in high-voltage power lines, to distribute the power generated.

But the bigger piece is wrapped up in the debate about data centers.

That's because the measure is specifically worded to say that one of those plants can go in right next door — again, without county oversight — to a business with an "extra high load energy factor.'' That means a lot of 24/7 electricity demand, which pretty much matches the power draw of a data center.

These reactors are nothing like what people know.

The legislation limits them to a capacity of generating 300 megawatts. By comparison, the three units at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station west of Phoenix can generate more than 3,900 megawatts.

And they are physically smaller, perhaps no taller than 30 feet, versus the 200-foot towers of traditional reactors,  David Morris, a lobbyist for Americans for Prosperity which lobbies for free-market policies and deregulation, told lawmakers.

All that, however, still leaves the question of whether these reactors are a good idea and whether the desire to make it easier to put them in rural areas should allow them to ignore the objections of local leaders.

"Supervisors and county residents understand the importance of economic development and the infrastructure necessary for energy,'' testified Jacob Emnet on behalf of the County Supervisors Association. But he told lawmakers this has historically been established "in collaboration with residents and the elected residents.''

"And while we appreciate the excitement around small modular reactors, we are still in the early stages of the development of the technology,'' Emnet said.

That's one of the issues for Senate Minority Leader Priya Sundareshan. The environmental attorney said she supports nuclear energy, particularly as providing an alternative to other methods that can affect the climate.

But the Tucson Democrat pointed out that there are currently no such "modular'' reactors actually operating commercially in this country.