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Because amortised capital cost > operational (power) cost It's cheaper to build a 1 GW baseload power plant to sit beside your existing GPUs, than to buy anoth
by scarab92 2y ago
Because amortised capital cost > operational (power) cost
It's cheaper to build a 1 GW baseload power plant to sit beside your existing GPUs, than to buy another 1 GW of GPUs to place on the other side of the planet. Also, latency.
Also, a large scale roll out of nuclear would be cheaper than solar regardless. Most of the cost of recent nuclear builds is learning cost. We build them so infrequently that people retire or move on before the next one is built, so we have to learn how to build them from scratch, and develop the supply chains from scratch each time.
- drysine 2y agoBut is it cheaper? Building 1GW nuclear power unit costs about 4 billion dollars [0] [0] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Белорусская_АЭС#Стоимость_проекта https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Белорусская_АЭС#Стоимость_прое...
- drysine 2y agoOk, it's indeed much cheaper. Unless, of course, it's the Vogtle plant or similar Western-built one, which cost about 17 billions per GW and took 10 years to construct. In this case, the price is comparable if you factor in the cost of money.