For a modern scaled up data center, there’s no real benefit to nuclear miniturization. That’s the sort of technology best employed on shipping frigates and space stations - places where portability is a priority.
You don’t need to pick up a date center the size of 70 football fields and send it anywhere.
A lot of the companies and people responsible for having all these datacenters built are heavily invested in SMR. So they’ll probably be used anyways.
For a modern scaled up data center, there’s no real benefit to nuclear miniturization. That’s the sort of technology best employed on shipping frigates and space stations - places where portability is a priority.
You don’t need to pick up a date center the size of 70 football fields and send it anywhere.
Shipping frigates? Sure, lets give the Houthis and Somali pirates the capability of building dirty bombs.
And if solar power is cheaper on Earth, think of how much more cheaper it is in space where there isn’t an atmosphere getting in the way.
Sometimes a tech is really cool, but there just isn’t any viable use case for it.
What are you talking about?
There’s an R^2 drop off as you travel away from the sun.