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[OrediggerPoke]

Yes, the nuclear plants are cool, but how does this bring revenue to the state?

You can't have a data center industry without a lot of electricity. The taxes that data centers would pay is massive. In reality, the amount of electricity needed for the data center/AI industry almost requires nuclear technologies to play a role.

 

[doreno5]

You can't have a data center industry without a lot of electricity. The taxes that data centers would pay is massive. In reality, the amount of electricity needed for the data center/AI industry almost requires nuclear technologies to play a role.

Which is why Bill Gates has invested in the Kemmerer project. He is not interested in selling the power as much as he does not want to have to buy it from someone else. The technology that is being developed/tested if successful will be the model for additional smaller plants nationwide.
However this does not fix all the other structural and cultural issues which impede progress and population growth/retention for Wyoming but it is a step in the right direction.

 

[OrediggerPoke]

Which is why Bill Gates has invested in the Kemmerer project. He is not interested in selling the power as much as he does not want to have to buy it from someone else. The technology that is being developed/tested if successful will be the model for additional smaller plants nationwide.
However this does not fix all the other structural and cultural issues which impede progress and population growth/retention for Wyoming but it is a step in the right direction.

I'm actually pessimistic about the nuclear/AI industry future in Wyoming. The 'freedom caucus' is in an all out war attack on the industries and is getting the uneducated population to walk with them right off the cliff. I have a feeling Wyoming misses the boat on both Small Modular Reactors (i.e. the Kemmerer project) and microreactors (smaller battery like reactors with much broader applications).

I saw Wyovanian's comparison of Wyoming to the former 'coal is everything' folks in Appalachia and their unwillingness to welcome new industries. Those communities have certainly largely become very uninviting now. That seems to be a good observation based on what we are now seeing with these anti-business and anti-progress freedom caucus folks.