Blackrock Guts Its Own ESG Agenda To Promote Chatbots

It is darkly humorous to watch how quickly the Green Agenda gets forgotten the moment it inconveniences the Cabal. They were happily gutting Western Civilization’s energy infrastructure until they invented AI demons and discovered how thirsty they were.

Tennessee leads the way toward a U.S. nuclear revival

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By Duggan Flanakin, 18 September 2024

On September 3, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and the city of Oak Ridge, birthplace of the U.S. nuclear energy industry, announced new details about “Project IKE,” a new nuclear energy development boosted by the new Tennessee Nuclear Energy Fund. Paris-based Orano USA has agreed to build a uranium enrichment centrifuge facility on the Roane County side of Oak Ridge. The project, said Lee, is the single largest investment in Tennessee history.

Lee explained that the fund, created by the Tennessee General Assembly with a $60 million 2023-24 budget, has been highly successful in recruiting nuclear energy projects. Orano is the second of four projects announced in the last six months, further strengthening Tennessee’s status as “the number one state for nuclear energy companies to invest and thrive,” said Lee.

Orano specializes in uranium mining/conversion/enrichment, used nuclear fuel management and recycling, decommissioning shutdown nuclear energy facilities, federal site cleanup and closure, and developing nuclear medicines to fight cancer. KNOX reporter Daniel Dassow says the Orano announcement “heralds a new historical development: the second Manhattan Project” in the “Secret City.”

Just days earlier, NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. announced its purchase of a 1.64-acre site in Oak Ridge’s historic Heritage Center Industrial Park for its headquarters. NANO is a vertically integrated advanced nuclear energy and technology company that is developing portable microreactors.

A month earlier, Kairos Power began construction of its next-generation salt-cooled demo reactor in Oak Ridge, and back in April, TRISO-X received a $148.5 million tax credit from the federal government for its advanced nuclear fuel plant in the city. Oak Ridge and nearby Knoxville together are home to 154 nuclear companies and the iconic Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Three major, public-private nuclear efforts in a single month? In the Bidenomics regulatory environment? What’s going on?

In the words of Oak Ridge city council member Sean Gleason, “East Tennessee is becoming once again, after 80-plus years, the place the nation is looking for to lead the next nuclear race. Let Oak Ridge win another race,” he added. “We’ve done it before.” Unlike the weapons-grade first Manhattan Project, Orano will produce low-enriched uranium to be used in commercial reactors to generate electricity.

Kairos Power’s 35-megawatt iterative non-power demonstration molten salt nuclear reactor, dubbed Hermes, will be its first nuclear build. With completion expected in 2027, Hermes is part of the California-based firm’s “rapid iterative development approach” to developing and marketing nuclear power plant designs based on its fluoride salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor technology. The hope is to have a commercial-grade reactor operational in the early 2030s.

Fossil fuel plants are still being closed. I believe that’s because hydrocarbons are a portable, storable and simple energy technology. Restricting humanity to electricity-only will drastically interfere with our independence from the Regime, err, grid. A case in point:

Even before Congress passed the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act in July, renewed interest in nuclear energy had stirred a movement across the U.S. Construction began in June for TerraPower’s Natrium reactor 1 demonstration project in Wyoming, the nation’s first advanced reactor project to move from design into construction. TerraPower chairman and founder Bill said Gates that the company’s “innovative Natrium technology” will power America’s future – and the world’s.

That reactor is being built on top of a coal mine. The coal in it was burned locally at a coal-fired power plant, making it pretty close to a perpetual energy machine. The mine was shut down by the Green Agenda. That shuttered the power plant, which Bill Gates soon appropriated for his experimental nuclear reactor.

The local town, facing economic collapse, didn’t have much of a choice but to sign Billy a blank check. Also, the uranium from that plant was sourced from Russia after the 2014 NATO sanctions were imposed.

Up in Michigan, the state in July re-upped its support for the reopening of the closed 800-megawatt Palisades Nuclear Power Plant with a second $150 million investment. The U.S. Department of Energy earlier conditionally approved $1.5 billion to help restart the plant, which was closed in 2022 by 2025. The Michigan effort may be duplicated at mothballed nuclear reactors in Iowa and Pennsylvania.

NextEra Energy Inc., whose Duane Arnold plant on the Iowa prairie was damaged by a windstorm in 2020, and Constellation Energy Corp., whose Three Mile Island reactor 2 shuttered in 2019 after 45 incident-free years, are looking at restarting if it can be done safely and economically. These nuclear plants, if reopened, could provide nonstop baseload power needed to run high-energy-using data centers.

Ah, Three Mile Island. Kids these days probably don’t remember what a scandal that was. One of the reactors there almost went Chernobyl, but unlike the latter, the American failsafes worked. The eco-Nazis saw it as an example of what could happen while the engineers saw it as a validation of their precautions. Cue a big debate.

Similarly,

…New efforts to recycle nuclear waste, held up for decades by legal and regulatory barriers, are also on the drawing boards. The nuclear waste disposal issue has been a major thorn in the side of any new nuclear power construction in the U.S., but a new bipartisan consensus has emerged in which even diehard former nuclear opponents now see nuclear energy as acceptably “clean.”

The original process for repurposing spent nuclear fuel, developed in the U.S. in the 1950s, has been in profitable use in other countries for decades – but not in the U.S., where anti-nuclear activists long prevailed.

The reason nuclear energy was unpopular in USA is Rockefeller didn’t want to give up his black gold. Then the petrodollar became a thing, and USA was not eager to innovate alternatives to it…

In 2020, a startup company called Curio developed its own innovative, environmentally sustainable nuclear fuel recycling technology.

Former President Trump is campaigning on a platform that includes cutting energy bills by up to 70% by eliminating what he sees as needless, burdensome regulations. A second Trump Administration would likely cut subsidies for inefficient and habitat-damaging wind and solar projects and focus on regulatory and statutory reforms to cut the entry and operational costs for nuclear power.

…But then something changed. Saudi Arabia allowed the treaties that the petrodollar was based on, to expire, which could be the key to the Rockefellers types giving up on petrol, but that doesn’t fully explain this sudden-since-2020 rush to build nuclear power plants while sabotaging hydrocarbons everywhere.

Domestic uranium production peaked in 1980, and today the nation relies on Canada and Australia for 36% of its uranium and on Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan for 48%.

Especially since those reactors will have be supplied by the Russian Federation? Remember that Wagner Group recently kicked France out of African uranium.

Here’s why the sudden interest in nuclear energy:

AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet's Hyper-Consumption Era

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By Reece Rogers, 11 July 2024

This rush to add AI to as many online interactions as possible can be traced back to OpenAI’s boundary-pushing release of ChatGPT late in 2022. Silicon Valley soon became obsessed with generative AI, and nearly two years later, AI tools powered by large language models permeate the online user experience.

One unfortunate side effect of this proliferation is that the computing processes required to run generative AI systems are much more resource intensive. This has led to the arrival of the internet’s hyper-consumption era, a period defined by the spread of a new kind of computing that demands excessive amounts of electricity and water to build as well as operate.

“In the back end, these algorithms that need to be running for any generative AI model are fundamentally very, very different from the traditional kind of Google Search or email,” says Sajjad Moazeni, a computer engineering researcher at the University of Washington. “For basic services, those were very light in terms of the amount of data that needed to go back and forth between the processors.” In comparison, Moazeni estimates generative AI applications are around 100 to 1,000 times more computationally intensive.

The materialists swoon over AI as being some innovative breakthrough in cognition. Truth is, it’s just a brute-force rummage through a database.

That’s a LOT of brute force, and not a good look for an “Environmental Sustainability Report”.

The technology’s energy needs for training and deployment are no longer generative AI’s dirty little secret, as expert after expert last year predicted surges in energy demand at data centers where companies work on AI applications. Almost as if on cue, Google recently stopped considering itself to be carbon neutral, and Microsoft may trample its sustainability goals underfoot in the ongoing race to build the biggest, bestest AI tools.

Rather than a bane on the environment, technology companies are often positioning AI development as part of the climate solution and critical to innovation.

Clown World is such a joke, inventing behavior-control brain microchips is redundant for all but the most dissident of Christians. Our rulers’ motives for lying are as transparent as a Haitian’s when he kidnaps your cat.

Despite an upwards trend of energy needs at data centers, it’s still a small percentage of the amount of energy humans use overall.

You read that right. “Our data centers only use a small percentage of humanity’s overall energy use.”

Group including BlackRock, Microsoft, [NVIDIA] aims to raise $100 billion for data center and power infrastructure

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By Kevin Clark, 20 September 2024

BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), Microsoft and MGX this week announced the formation of the Global AI Infrastructure Investment Partnership (GAIIP) to make investments in data centers and the energy infrastructure to power them.

The partnership will initially seek to unlock $30 billion of private equity capital over time from investors, asset owners and corporate partners, which in turn would mobilize up to $100 billion in total investment potential when including debt financing.

The Cabal is looking to spend $100b on nuclear energy over the next six years. I recognize those Large Language Models as being artificial demons, but even so, it’s astonishing how they are THIS critical to the Cabal’s agenda.

According to a study released by EPRI this year, data centers could consume up to 9% of U.S. electricity generation by 2030 — more than double the amount currently used. This could create regional supply challenges, among other issues.

Currently, data centers ALONE use 4% of ALL electricity generated in USA.

According to a more recent analysis from McKinsey, the United States is expected to be the fastest-growing market for data centers, growing from 25 GW of demand in 2024 to more than 80 GW of demand in 2030.

Since access to power has become a critical factor in driving new data center builds, McKinsey says the “power sector is rapidly becoming a protagonist in the AI story.”

And that’s just their intentions. The old joke “When was Three Mile Canyon discovered?” might become new again, if Blackrock doesn’t also gut its DIE agenda.