@BenjaminDEKR: We should build nuclear-powered data centers on existing U.S. military bases. This solves many problems at once: The go…

We should build nuclear-powered data centers on existing U.S. military bases. This solves many problems at once: The gov already owns and controls the land (bases are often huge), so no zoning complaints. Protestors? Talk to the Marines at the gate. Navy already operates a fleet of many compact, reliable nuclear power plants on submarines and ships. The on-base reactors can be used for vital training for our nuke operators. These datacenters can be used for both government and public access, as a taxpayer-funded service. One submarine-sized reactor (~70 MWe electrical equivalent) could power a mid-sized dedicated AI cluster or a large inference facility... comparable to a single 50–80 MW hyperscale building. One carrier reactor (~200 MWe electrical equivalent) could power a substantial AI campus, on the order of a 150–200 MW training cluster.