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Next up, the Boring Company gets imaginary contract for underground datacenters, is now valued at $500B.

• m463 9mo ago
  there was an article recently about a company wanting to put nuclear reactors at the bottom of very deep boreholes (like km deep). I thought that was actually quite interesting/practical, because if there is a problem, you can just bury the problem. not like tmi/fukushima/chernobyl
  • DaedalusII 9mo ago
    Interesting idea. 2km deep could work. I'm not sure how cooling or maintenance would work. Depth below surface | Typical temperature (°C) | Indicative cost to drill 1.2 m diameter hole 500 m | 15–25 | $5–10 million 1 km | 25–40 | $10–20 million 2 km | 50–70 | $25–45 million 3 km | 75–100 | $50–80 million 4 km | 100–130 | $90–140 million 5 km | 130–160 | $150–250 million
    • m463 9mo ago
      maybe not the article I read, but similar: https://spectrum.ieee.org/underground-nuclear-reactor-deep-fission https://spectrum.ieee.org/underground-nuclear-reactor-deep-f...
• kklisura 9mo ago
  Nah. They get contract for mining on Mars, valued north of $1T.