AI nonsense is too damn expensive, and needs 3 times the computer power (and number of servers etc.) and cooling systems to keep the gear going. Since they insist on not using distributed computing power but on segregating the hardware in specific data centers they need their own power grids localized as well. This of course is a flawed idea as it also means that the equipment in the data center is targetable resource, from a security point of view.

A lot of communities don't want them to simply use the existing grid as it means a huge cost to the community while additional capacity is being built if they build and AI data center in it (and only temporary benefit from construction jobs, if any, as once built they don't need a huge number of employees in them to maintain).

Another community problem is the sheer noise. This health crisis story from Granbury, Texas is about a bitcoin mining farm, but the same problem applies to data centers:

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/bitcoin-mine-health-crisis-noise-pollution-texas/
https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/

For the techbro community, it's all about "shopping around" for the places with the fewest regulations and the cheapest politicians to buy off. Sometimes that's in some east asian hell-hole. Sometimes that's the middle of Texas.

‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town

TIME spoke to over 40 people in Granbury, Texas who believe their medical issues stem from a Bitcoin mine owned by Marathon Digital Holdings.

^{By Andrew R Chow/Granbury, Texas (Time)}

@Alexander Goeres Maybe the techbro geniuses behind nuclear AI asked AI what the most efficient power source for their AI plans would be, and the AI training data was infested with oodles of nuclear power propaganda.

The whole "small reactors" thing is the nuclear industry's current attempt to pretend to be relevant. There has been a constant torrent of press releases and propaganda puff pieces regurgitating industry claims that small reactors are the next big thing ... like way more press than solar freaking roadways or Hyperloop.

Truth is, the economic viability of small reactors is even more hopeless than traditional reactors. But people have been wising up to the failures of traditional reactors, so they pump up talk about these small reactors to fool the easily fooled that we need to stop investing in solar and wind because superior nuclear is right around the corner.

My point is ... if these techbros ask AI what to do, the AI will simply GIGO them small reactor lies.