it's them being built during this hapless administration.

.... they don't "mastermind" the actual construction.

Future increases in demand for electricity are dependent on massive increases in data center demand, which is economically impossible. Either the LLMs are going to get a lot more efficient, reducing demand for data centers, or the LLMs fail altogether, which reduces data center demand. Either way, straight lining capacity need off projected growth while holding technology steady, is an asinine assumption.

If the markets don’t need all these data centers, they won’t need huge, fixed production power plants that use old technology like nuclear power.

If there is a gap in power needs vs. capacity and there must be more power generation, using alternative to fill the gap is the logical path since it is so much cheaper than nuclear and it doesn’t compute. It also has much shorter lead times than nuclear.

Finally, if it is determined that nuclear must be part of the equation, why wouldn’t the market wait for miniaturization of nuclear which seems likely in the next 5 years.

In other words, there is no reason to start building expensive nuclear power plants that take a decade to build, may be unnecessary, and will certainly be obsolete by the time they are operational.

So we're told.

authority to do this?

.....through the DOE’s Title 17 Energy Financing Program. The Title 17 program operates using existing borrowing authority, credit subsidy appropriations, and permanent loan guarantee authority established by Congress across multiple past statutes rather than a single specific congressional bill.

The last large-scale nuclear power plant privately built cost $25B and took over a decade to build; so in today $, that price tag is on the low side.

The only way this is feasible is if the money is paid back over 30+ years. Nuclear power on a cost per megawatt basis is WAY more expensive than other forms of electricity production. It costs more to build a nuclear power plant and to operate it compared to other forms of electricity production.

So like just about everything this administration does and Republicans support, it's gonna cost taxpayers more. It's mind boggling how just about everyone thinks Republicans and Trump have a mind for business.

Presumably the power provided by any of these plants (if built) will be considered part of the grid/pool of power available to all ratepayers. All ratepayers will be paying the cost of these plants = the idea that the tech oligarchs will be covering the cost is just another lie krasnov's administration tries to fob off on the public.