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A major watchdog says data centers are wreaking havoc on North America's power grid
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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What did we expect? We focused on military, not infrastructure. Our government believes solar, wind, and hydro is useless and clean coal is the only source
Not all of north america.
Canada is a world leader in nuclear and number 3 for hydro for example.
Being a world leader in nuclear power just means you have more than three power plants and you haven't been bombed by israel or the US for it.
And developed a reactor that doesnt need enriched uranium, removing the risk of weapons development.
And have been one of the few countries to deploy reactors under budget and on time.
You mean thorium reactors, invented in the US in the 1950s? Or recycle reactors, also invented by the US in the 1950s?
Also that second part also describes the actual world leader in nuclear power which has more than 100x the reactors of Canada and no nuclear disasters on record...
Like the "hasnt left the lab in 75 years" thorium reactors (Which current designs still need enriched uranium)? and the recycle reactors that produce weapons grade plutonium (Of course, also via enriched uranium)? Id love to see you
No I dont mean those, I mean the CANDU's, a viable system that has been operating for around the same amount of time thorium has been in development hell (again, 75 years).
Are you trying to say america has never had a nuclear disaster on record? Cause its pretty easy to google that US has had more nuclear accidents in the 2000's than canada has in the past century. The Three Mile Island meltdown was probably the worst nuclear accident in north america, its hardly reasonable to ignore it. Unless you count uranium mining accidents, cause then the Church Rock uranium mill takes the crown.
And which country has ~2000 nuclear reactors? I must have missed this in my research, with those numbers they account for approximately 4x the total number of reactors in the world, a surprising oversight. (Or are you doing some football math that 94/19 = 100x? Cause even if 94/19=5x then per capita america is still lacking)
China, was the magic answer, at 62 current reactors and another 50 expected to come online by 2030. Without a single nuclear disaster.
To the rest of your nonsense, CANDUs still require enriched uranium. As in, if the 'natural uranium' (the "organic" label of the nuclear world) does not have enough 238, it can't work.