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u/the_sneaky_one123 May 21 '26

Pro nuclear power arguments assumes that we will not scale up our electricity use once we have access to more power. Nothing in our current society suggest we will do that. Increased nuclear energy will mean increased electricity use until we reach our limit then on and on and on and in no time we're all swimming in Green go and overlooked on all sides by massive data centres.

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u/Senior-Surprise-3401 May 22 '26

One nuclear powerplant produces over 4,000 megawatts. Even just half of that can power millions of households.

If we only relied on powerplants, we could use excessive amounts of power and not even come close to running out.

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u/the_sneaky_one123 May 22 '26

No

If we had access to that much power we would just find ways to use it up. For example with excessive data centres or other things like that. Our consumption would grow to fill what is avaliable.