The power-hungry billionaires and their power-hungry data centers are gobbling up electric power, pushing the grid to its limits. So what do you do to feed the power-hungry monsters? Why, you build more power plants! Pour out more noxious gases.
So what is Trump's answer? Nuclear power. I was okay with that, but then... but then, he lowers the safety standards! So his billionaire friends can make more billions!
AP NewsBy JENNIFER McDERMOTTJuly 26, 2026The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to eliminate a foundational safety principle that has for 50 years minimized the radiation people in the United States are exposed to and that has been adopted around the world.Currently, facilities such as nuclear plants, hospitals or academic institutions that use radioactive materials must ensure radiation exposures are kept “as low as reasonably achievable” — the ALARA principle. The NRC proposal would abandon that philosophy while keeping a separate standard on maximum radiation exposure.The two standards have worked together in radiation safety. Dose limits set the maximum amount of radiation the public and radiation workers can be exposed to, while ALARA kept radiation exposure as low as practical under those limits. Research shows radiation exposure increases a person’s chance of getting cancer, a risk that increases as the dose increases.
am going to tell you right now... this is WRONG! This is very WRONG!
I ran an electronic test department for over twenty years! The company that I worked for was all engineers, from the company CEO right on down. My boss was an ex-skipper of a Navy nuke sub. We built just about half the nuclear power plants in the U.S. It originally was Combustion Engineering, and it was engineering. People who built the plants did so for 30, 40 years!
But now the company's DNA has changed; it is starting to be run by private equity firms that have zero experience in building anything! Let alone a nuclear plant!
The AP article goes on...
This comes as President Donald Trump attempts to quadruple domestic nuclear energy production because of surging electricity demand amid a data center and artificial intelligence boom. Reforming the NRC is one way Trump is trying to speed up nuclear reactor development. He instructed the federal agency in an executive order last year to “ adopt science-based radiation limits.”
WAIT, he is doing this because of the data centers his billionaire friends run? He is putting everyone's life in danger for a buck?
And a buck is being made by Trump...
The $6 billion deal aimed at bringing the new form of electricity to the market raises thorny conflict of interest questions.The Washington PostBy Evan Halper and Drew HarwellDecember 18, 2025A planned $6 billion merger between President Donald Trump’s social media and cryptocurrency company and a fusion power firm may give a boost to efforts to innovate a new form of electricity but raises thorny questions about what the energy company has to gain, economists and ethics experts said.The companies say the merger is motivated by the Trump firm’s ready access to crucial capital that its new partner, California-based TAE Technologies, can tap in its race to build a fusion power plant. As part of the deal, Trump’s firm will initially invest as much as $300 million in the fusion technology.Economist Peter Schiff sees another motive: “The only real value DJT offers an energy company is political leverage: access to power and the prospect of favorable treatment from the Trump administration,” Schiff, chief economist at Euro Pacific Asset Management, posted on the social media platform X. “With this merger, it is now obviously well positioned to monetize that access.”[...]Rep. Don Beyer (D-Virginia), who founded the bipartisan House Fusion Energy Caucus, said the deal raises “significant concerns about conflicts of interest and avenues for political corruption.” He called for congressional oversight to ensure fusion subsides are spent to benefit the public rather than “the Trump family and their corporate holdings.”
So what do these massive data centers do? Well, a small part of them are used for AI centers, but the vast majority of them are for cloud-based data. But even more sinister is all the data from ALPRs, Ring doorbells, all the security camera data, and all the facial recognition data.
Also, Trump has directed the Department of Defense to identify sites on existing military bases where qualifying data centers and related infrastructure projects could be built. This means some data centers may be located on military installations. He has also described data centers as critical national security infrastructure, while at the same time owning stock in companies tied to the data center industry.
Not only is he cutting safety in the nuclear industry, but he is rolling back EPA standards in air and water, and now nuclear standards.
It is now possible, from the moment you leave your house, fly across country, and walk into an office on the other side of the country, for you to be tracked.
And to do that, it takes gigawatts and gigawatts of power! Both electrical and political.
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