With our billionaires looking to nuclear power for their emerging AI data centers, I was wondering about costs. Found some data in various places and it was looking like nukes were 9x the price to generate electricity compared to wind and solar. Then I found an article on the new Georgia nuclear plant that does the math for me. It’s 10x. And nuclear is getting more expensive while renewables are rapidly decreasing in price. When you figure in operational costs of nukes are 20% it is starting to look like shutting down existing plants could be a big saver. Well, a saver for energy users. A big problem for people who own the debt used to finance those nuke plants. Whoops!

Georgia’s new nuclear plants drive US power sector clean-up