2025: DOGE Fired Key Nuclear Safety Staff. Is there a clear and present conflict of interest?

#Deregulation Equals #Unaccountable #NuclearPoweredBillionaires
Big tech is turning to old reactors (and planning new ones) to power the energy-hungry data centers that "AI" systems need.
Musk buys $1.5bn in bitcoin, pushing price to new high. Elon Musk has helped to drive popularity of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and dogecoin.
Bitcoin Miners Powering the AI Revolution. Right-wing dark money groups are lobbying for the US and state governments to invest billions of dollars in Bitcoin reserves, jeopardizing public funds and the environment alike.
Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and other so-called “tech bros” who also happen to be among the world’s richest men have thought about how the energy industry can—or must, in their view—keep pace with "AI’s" rapid growth.
Elon Musk: Shutting down nuclear plants is “total madness”
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that nuclear is “critical” to national security, while the risk of radiation is overplayed.
2023: SOS - the San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power's Legacy.
This film chronicles a community’s victory over leaking reactors, only to confront a chilling reality - deadly radioactive waste next to a rising sea.
https://tubitv.com/movies/100025702/sos-the-san-onofre-syndrome-nuclear-power-s-legacy?autoplay=true
Constellation Energy plans to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1, which was shut down in 2019, after refurbishment, and will supply electricity to Microsoft's data centers through a 20-year power purchase agreement, aiming to be operational by 2028.
An ulterior motive is an unrevealed reason for saying or doing something. Often, people with ulterior motivation say or do something that will benefit themselves without sharing that motivation with others or while positing that the action is actually beneficial to someone or something else.
Musk: “I think long term, most of civilization's (aka the poorest of humanity) energy is going to come from solar, and then you need to store it with battery because, obviously, the sun only shines during the day, and sometimes it is very cloudy. So you need solar batteries. That will be the main long-term way that civilization is powered. But between now and then, we need to maintain nuclear. I can't emphasize that enough. This is total madness to shut them down. I want to be clear, total madness.”
In just the past year, US electric utilities have nearly doubled their estimates of how much electricity they’ll need in another five years. Electric vehicles, cryptocurrency, and a resurgence of American manufacturing are sucking up a lot of electrons, but AI is growing faster and is driving the rapid expansion of data centers. A recent report by the global investment bank Goldman Sachs forecasts that data centers will consume about 8 percent of all US electricity in 2030, up from about 3 percent today.
Bitcoin advocacy group pushing President Donald Trump to stockpile massive amounts of cryptocurrency and state-level efforts to do the same is run by right-wing fossil fuel operatives fighting to dismantle environmental regulations, including the author of the Project 2025 proposal to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency.
As Texas residents faced blackouts and freezing temperatures, a Bitcoin mining company called Bitdeer was continuously running its computers until just after midnight on 14 February 2021 when Texas’ power grid operator ordered them to turn off, according to an investigation from The New York Times.
https://youtu.be/wgnVAatoEEI
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-winter-blackout-bitcoin-b2318027.html
If the group has its way, governments will use taxpayer dollars and workers’ retirement funds to buy and hold billions of dollars in largely unregulated, volatile assets that would boost energy demands and accelerate climate destruction.
Cryptocurrency mining requires enormous amounts of electricity. An oversight group estimates that Bitcoin—the original and most popular cryptocurrency—has a global annualized energy that matches Poland’s annual power consumption. One Bitcoin transaction uses as much energy as hundreds of thousands of credit card transactions.
Demand for electricity in Texas continues to break records. It comes as the power grid strains under increased demand due to data centers and cryptocurrency mining.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/22/nx-s1-5086490/the-texas-power-grid-is-straining-under-data-and-crypto-demands
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-22/trump-sons-bitcoin-mining-partners-had-run-ins-with-regulators
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/dark-money-bitcoin-reserve-lobby
https://education.compassmining.io/education/bitcoin-mining-industry-report-march-2025-monthly-operational-updates/
https://www.theregreview.org/2025/03/19/bradley-the-energy-costs-of-cryptocurrency/
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364
The indirect byproduct of bitcoin mining on the real world is nuclear waste..
UN Study Reveals the Hidden Environmental Impacts of Bitcoin: Carbon is Not the Only Harmful By-product.
https://unu.edu/press-release/un-study-reveals-hidden-environmental-impacts-bitcoin-carbon-not-only-harmful-product
Bitcoin miner ‘greenwashing’: Claims that nuclear-powered crypto operation is clean energy.
WASHINGTON – As cryptocurrencies struggle with soaring electricity prices that squeeze profits, one major bitcoin mining operation will soon be the first in the U.S. to use nuclear power, falsely claiming it’s good for the environment.
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/02/bitcoin-miner-greenwashing-claims-nuclear-powered-crypto
Why Crypto Mining Needs Nuclear Power.
https://ezblockchain.net/article/why-crypto-mining-needs-nuclear-power/

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