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Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power

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589 points atomic128 | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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pinewurst ◴[14 Oct 24 19:56 UTC] No.41841253[source]▶
It’s not real funding, it’s a power purchase agreement from something that may never be built! No different from Microsoft’s previous fusion power purchase agreement. The Goog may as well announce they’ve reserved office space in a building to be built on Proxima Centauri B.

Just tech virtue signalling: Google/Microsoft trade the impression that they’re relevant leaders for some legitimacy for a blue sky startup.

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1. jakjak123 ◴[14 Oct 24 21:41 UTC] No.41842322[source]▶
Yeah, its not much I agree. But it is an agreement the company can wave that they at least have future buyers for their non-existing power generators if they were to build them!