DOE's Hyperspeed Reactors Tyler Durden's Photo by Tyler Durden Wednesday, Dec 03, 2025 - 04:40 PM As the rate of data center development rises, more states should be following the Texas example, where each data center must have its own “behind the meter” onsite power generation. Instead, it appears data center development will continue to grossly outpace the rate of production for on-site electricity generation in most states.
To prevent skyrocketing electric bills, every state has to follow the Texas example: each data center must have its own "behind the meter" onsite power generation.
“We believe data centers should pay for the full cost of their power,” Dominion Energy spokesperson Aaron Ruby… https://t.co/0u1owTeAs8 pic.twitter.com/8W421s3rzV
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 23, 2025 With power demand surging, driven heavily by new AI data centers, more people are starting to realize the best means for addressing future demand will be through clean nuclear energy. Unfortunately, decades of atrophy currently afflict today’s nuclear industry, and nuclear engineers are in desperate need of a “nuclear iteration playground” to quickly develop their advanced reactor designs to the commercial stage.
And then there is the issue of where the US gets 300,000 engineers to build all this missing power supply by 2030 https://t.co/a18crhqZ4v pic.twitter.com/tinW8SHDwM
I'm of the opinion all of these data centers need to fully fund their electricity and water requirements. It is a gross abuse to plop one of these down and dump the costs on the residents who happen to be in that area and now are looking at 3-4x increases in their rates.
To start. Tell the remnants of the Anti-Nuclear Hippies to go fuck themselves. They’re trying to restart 3 Mile Island as an example and the local elderly are raising a stink.
Secondly. Bring down the price of education and for the moment suspend Non-essential GE pre-requisites for essential fields. You can halve the time it takes to produce an Engineer by reigning in the arbitrary and BS requirements imposed.
Not to mention taking a chunk out of the liberal professors as students are no-longer forced into taking their courses.
Start in middle school (Math & Science) like other countries while US dumbed down students. Trade Schools, Tech Schools & let Colleges specialize in more practical programs for country's future needs. jmo
Excellent suggestions
Good idea. But English composition must remain a core class. I taught at the community college level and basic writing skills for most of them were atrocious. A product of our broken public education system and digital communication. The same applies with foreigners.
Certificate programs where I was teaching college only required 3 classes beyond the core subjects. English comp was one of them. But it is an idea that could fast track STEM people into some of those positions. Humanities and sociology classes are a big waste of time and useless for most people on a STEM track. Math and physical sciences like chemistry should be their focus. You are right in that there are far too many professors collecting a paycheck for meaningless, if not dangerous, Marxist social justice curricula that are required for degrees.
This. Engineers required to take anything that doesn’t pertain to engineering and continue that across the board. This will cut down on indoctrination as well. You can either math or you can’t. This will also lower the overall cost of education. Let the underwater baker weavers saddle themselves with ridiculous debt as they ponder not how to learn but how to regurgitate the egotistical professor’s ideology. Let any major that actually contributes to society learn what they need to excel without starting life with massive debt. Better yet let’s bring back true apprenticeships
Texas has a lot of control over their grid that other states don't.
There are basically 3 grids in the US. Loosely, there is one for the east, one for the west. and Texas has one to itself.
These data centers that want to setup business in the east and the west have to negotiate with multiple entities. There is a lot less red tape and a lot fewer hands looking for a hand out in Texas.