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The clean, dense, non-intermittent power provided by nuclear reactors is extremely valuable.

Unless you are located near a hydroelectric dam, there is really no substitute.

Here is a quote from Yann LeCun (Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta):

  AI datacenters will be built next to energy production sites that can produce 
  gigawatt-scale, low-cost, low-emission electricity continuously.

  Basically, next to nuclear power plants.

  The advantage is that there is no need for expensive and wasteful
  long-distance distribution infrastructure.

  Note: Yes, solar and wind are nice and all, but they require lots of land
  and massive-scale energy storage systems for when there is too little sun
  and/or wind. Neither simple nor cheap.
https://x.com/ylecun/status/1837875035270263014
The beauty of dams is- nuclear near them is a good combo. The dam can handle daily variations and nuclear gets tons of safe water for cooling
Large DCs and Utilities should pool their resources into dedicated organisations that build large nuclear power plants regularly. I think that will lead to the cheapest electricity for them.