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by senectus1 294 days ago
South Korea built 13 nuclear reactors in recent decades, with an average construction period of 56 months...

Apparently Japan is the fastest builder (46 months).

the 10 year+ issue is a western problem.

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Ok but telling someone they can have GPUs online in a mere 5 years if they build as fast as SK is still going to be a very painful pill. How do we get a DC in a year?

  How do we get a DC in a year?
Migrate an existing plant? https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/elon-musks-xai-bu...

> The company has apparently been thinking outside the box to meet its power needs, with Musk stating a couple of weeks ago that it intends to buy a power plant from abroad and import it into the US to provide energy for its data centers.

That did not go well for the Japanese