> If nuclear made sense, Microsoft ... would finance the construction of a few plants to feed their ever growing appetite for reliable carbon-free energy Compa

> If nuclear made sense, Microsoft ... would finance the construction of a few plants to feed their ever growing appetite for reliable carbon-free energy Companies focus on their strengths. Microsoft isn't building its own chip fabs, or lots of other things it has an appetite for, because it's not one of their strengths. Companies can only be good at a few things. So them not building their own nuclear plants isn't a reason to believe it's a bad idea. There are a few startups building small modular reactors. As I understand it, while data centers are certainly on their list of potential customers, they're getting more immediate sales commitments from remote mining operations where they're replacing diesel generators instead of competing with the grid.