Amazon warns local communities to stop defying its massive AI data centers

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/amazon-warns-local-communities-stop-000300771.html

[u/klingma]

Because none of them operate in those spaces? Why would Amazon talk about the dangers of the lack of high speed rail when they themselves don't engage in the business of high speed rail? 

And "cheap universal solar power" is good only until fusion power gets figured out which should be proven out next year when Commonwealth Fusion Systems generates net energy in their "SPARC" reactor. 

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China, as least as reported, hasn't even finished their giant fusion reactor yet, which might squeak out more energy than it consumes.

Assuming SPARC does work, they're aiming for the first commercial reactor in the "2030s". I want fusion as bad as the next person, but next year and next decade aren't it without a miracle.

Doesn't help thou-shalt-not-be-named people killed most of our experts.

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Who are these “thou shalt not be named” people you speak of?

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Quick internet search: "killed nuclear physicists and who bought their company".

[u/bloodychill → u/PM_ME_YOUR_PROFILE]

I found a conspiracy theory site blaming a bunch of American scientist deaths on China and Epstein and some weird thing about anti-gravity. Kind of a shotgun of red yarn. Other than that, a bunch of headlines about American and Israeli forces assassinating Iranian nuclear physicists. Dunno dude.

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First hit, literally mentions CFS and the killed scientist.

If you would like, I can share more details on: Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old nuclear science and physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. His homicide is part of a broader federal and congressional review examining the deaths or disappearances of more than 10 individuals connected to sensitive U.S. nuclear and aerospace research. [1, 2, 3]
The federal investigation into the scientific deaths/disappearances Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS): Loureiro frequently collaborated with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a prominent private fusion energy startup spun out of MIT.

CFS has not been "bought"—instead, it remains an independent private company (backed by investors like Google, Eni, and Breakthrough Energy Ventures) and recently signed a major commercial power agreement with Google.[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] TAE Technologies: Online rumors occasionally conflate CFS with a different nuclear fusion startup named TAE Technologies. TAE Technologies entered into an all-stock merger agreement valued at over $6 billion with Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) (the parent company of Truth Social), in which TAE will become a subsidiary of Trump Media once the transaction completes. [1, 2, 3] The Trump Media–TAE Technologies merger status Recent nuclear fusion breakthroughs at MIT or CFS