Comment on Microsoft Looking to Use Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Data Centers
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 1 year agoIt would still be far cheaper to deploy the same kind of capacity in renewables. Whoever came up with this brilliant plan can’t do basic math.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Probably not because they would need to buy MUCH more land to do it.
SMRs are so much more compact per MW. The one from NuScale that is approved already can do 924MW in 0.05 square miles. To do the same capacity with wind would take 94 square miles and 17 square miles for solar.
Buying 17 square miles of land close enough to just one of their data centers would cost billions, on top of the cost of paying for the panels and installation.
The whole point of them looking at these at all is because they do not want to purchase from the grid.