And yet when data enters need power all day every day nuclear is the only solution. Even Bill Gates stop selling solar when it wasn't for the poors who probably don't need hot water every day anyway.
Most people do not buy from specific sources of production. They buy “from the grid”, the constituents of which are a dynamic mix of production sources (solar, wind, hydro, nuclear and fossile where I live).
Wind is strong at night when solar produces nothing. Same in the winter months.
As I said: if the power consumer is grid connected, this does not matter. Example: I have power in the socket even at night time :)
As long as you have uninterrupted power (i.e. as long as connected to the grid), the important metric is mean cost of energy, not capacity factor of the production plant.
For a nuclear sub or a space ship, which is not grid connected, capacity factor is very important. But data centers are usually grid connected.
> when data enters need power all day every day nuclear is the only solution
Do you think data centers running at night are running exclusively on nuclear-generated power :)?
We already have lots of data centers that need power all day every day. Most are just grid connected. It works.
