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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

The Trump administration is providing $17.5 billion to speed the development of 10 new large nuclear reactors to meet the skyrocketing power demand from massive data centers. Energy Secretary Chris Wright cited "tremendous interest" among developers of data centers that would buy the power, as well as utilities and energy companies. The nuclear plants could begin construction by 2030 and become operational in the mid-2030s, Wright and other officials said Tuesday.

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Most U.S. nuclear power plants were built between 1970 and 1990. Only two new large reactors have been built from scratch in the United States in recent decades. Those two reactors, at Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle, were completed years late and billions of dollars over budget. The 10 new reactors will use the same design, Westinghouse's AP1000.

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The nuclear plants could begin construction by 2030 and become operational in the mid-2030s,

Timely.

#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-06-24 02:03 PM | Reply

Here, or in Iran?

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-24 06:33 PM | Reply

Both.

#3 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-24 06:44 PM | Reply

On this exact topic, OpenAI announced Jalapeno today, their custom processor and computer architecture optimized for their reasoning models. All those giga scale nvidia datacenters, time to start changing plans.

#4 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-24 06:45 PM | Reply

Obsolete before the CAD work was finished.

#5 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-24 06:45 PM | Reply

The tech writeups aren't telling me much. Half the energy cost per token, whatever that means, feels evolutionary, not revolutionary.

I guess it's more market diversification too. Seems like certain tasks will benefit from this, others not so much. Another tool in the shed.

I knew a little bit about AI and ML fifteen years ago but what it means now is a mystery to me.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-24 06:51 PM | Reply

Ahh, shit, so much, but the basics have not changed. The Neural Network was theorized in the early 40s. You could say pretty much everything modern in AI is evolutionary from that.

Biggest change was the introduction of the Transformer in 2017. "Attention Is All You Need". Recurrence relations were replaced with attention mechanism which lets you read an unlimited width of data and longer contexts. Since it's unlimited width reading, you can encode everything into a matrix and do row reductions in parallel. This is what makes modern reasoning models so good, and also what makes CUDA cores in Nvidia so powerful. They're not powerful like an x64 cpu core, but instead of 8 you get hundreds or thousands of them. Jalapeno is evolutionary to that, so the giga scale data center can now be the size of a regular data center for the same given overall performance.

#7 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-24 07:32 PM | Reply

Has anyone trained an AI on The Bible and asked it about abortion? I could probably do that on my 5080, right? One tiny little book doesn't seem like much to train on. Probably best to train it by downloading that website which has all the different translations though.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-24 07:58 PM | Reply

You can do the transfer learning, but it's already in there, every version afaik, plus the koran, etc. If it's been translated to english, it's been devoured training the big reasoning models.

Tokens work like this:

Hello that's 1 token
Hello, world! that's 4 tokens
Snoofy, this is 7 tokens.

Incidentally, a key to jailbreaking LLMs are massive run on sentences. So a 200,000 token context window is a budget, for your prompt, previous conversations it can load, documents, and the generated response. There's input and output tokens. In general, 10,000 tokens = 7500 words (a book, code, whatever).

If you can do 15000 words on 10,000 tokens you've had a massive efficiency breakthrough in AI. More or less what Jalapeno promises.

#9 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-24 08:02 PM | Reply

The actual GPT 5.5 Pro (20x) response to the prompt: "What does the bible say about abortion?"

The Bible does not directly mention abortion as it is understood in modern medicine. Because of that, Christians have interpreted biblical teachings in different ways. However, several passages are often cited in discussions about the value of unborn life:

Psalm 139:13"16 " The psalmist says that God formed him in the womb and knew him before birth.
Jeremiah 1:5 " "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you."
Luke 1:41"44 " John the Baptist is described as responding while still in his mother's womb.
Exodus 21:22"25 " A law concerning injury to a pregnant woman and her child; its interpretation is debated among scholars and denominations.

Because of these and other passages, many Christians conclude that unborn human life has significant value and that abortion is morally wrong except perhaps in rare circumstances.

Other Christians emphasize biblical themes such as compassion, justice, conscience, and care for women facing difficult situations. They note that the Bible does not explicitly prohibit abortion and argue that ethical decisions should consider the health, life, and circumstances of the pregnant woman.

#10 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-24 08:04 PM | Reply

There's more, you can hit the deep research mode, you can demand citations with valid links, you can have it cross reference different versions of the bible, etc, but uh, use your tokens not mine :/

I'm making bullshit fun side projects over here.

#11 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-24 08:04 PM | Reply

"plus the koran, etc."

It's the "etc" that bothers me.

All that disinformation and propaganda commingled with facts and knowledge.

It's going to do a good job replicating human behavior like lying stealing and cheating, no doubt. There's no reason not to.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-24 08:33 PM | Reply


All those giga scale nvidia datacenters, time to start changing plans.
#4 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

This is my issue with Datacenters.

NVidia is on a 6 month timeframe releasing new chipset. Not to mention Groq, by the time your replenish your datacenter its already out dated.

Groq, or inference processing is where its at for us mortals. I forsee home "AI devices taking over. No way this datacenter thing continues unabated.

Hello that's 1 token

using one word doesn't make any sense, it implies the wrong thing; Also what happens is the RAG's and Chat upload the context (secondary, and primary context) which adds to the tokens at a nonlinear rate.
platform.openai.com

Build an android app from scratch $3.00, start making changes and it goes non-linear.

If you can do 15000 words on 10,000 tokens you've had a massive efficiency breakthrough in AI

This is a matter of training, not hardware. With it though you will get mistakes, 15000 words becomes ~20-30,000 tokens.

#13 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-06-24 08:34 PM | Reply


It's going to do a good job replicating human behavior like lying stealing and cheating, no doubt. There's no reason not to.

#12 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

LOL it has no agency. Its nothing like human behavior.

#14 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-06-24 08:35 PM | Reply

All that disinformation and propaganda commingled with facts and knowledge.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-24 08:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

There are armies of fact checkers weighting it.

#15 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-24 08:38 PM | Reply

This is a matter of training, not hardware.

#13 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-06-24 08:34 PM | Reply | Flag:

I have a masters in data science and train models. Hardware matters.

#16 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-24 08:40 PM | Reply

There are armies of fact checkers weighting it.
#15 | Posted by sitzkrieg

They're educated enough to know?
Aren't these the Indians in Hyderabad that used to answer the phones for American Express?
They follow a script, they're not Subject Matter Experts.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-24 08:42 PM | Reply

They're educated enough to know?

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-24 08:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

Yes. Most of it is already handled with classifiers. You can train your own basic ones, start with Kaggle data sets and python. I prefer pycharm for jupyter notebooks with py code cells.

#18 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-24 08:46 PM | Reply

But why put garbage in in the first place?
Knowledge isn't a democracy.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-24 08:49 PM | Reply

If it has a 0 weight it's not in there.

#20 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-24 08:53 PM | Reply

That etc was a reference to other holy books. Epic of Gilgamesh, Hermetica, the four Vedas. When you train something on Reddit you get a shit show. When you train it on digitized academic archives with a high weight, not bad.

#21 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-24 08:55 PM | Reply

That said, some companies, say Grok, does not feel like they're doing their due diligence compared to OpenAI.

#22 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-24 08:57 PM | Reply

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