Regulators deliver successive blows to Amazon and Meta’s nuclear power ambitions
Amazon and Meta's plans for building data centers near nuclear power plants to fuel its electricity needs have run into regulatory roadblocks that have nothing to do with nuclear power itself. Meta's data center faces issues due to the sighting of a rare bee species on the land. Amazon's plans were blocked as it could cause other customers of the nearby nuclear power plant to suffer lower reliability and higher costs. Microsoft's plans to revive a reactor at Three Mile Island are still moving ahead.
Pretty typical. This is what Elon Musk talks about a great deal...the issues with regulation. It gets to the point where there are too many referees, far outnumbering the players.
Here is where the United States is going to join Europe in killing itself competitively.