Regardless, better that they're the ones who spend the money for these reactors, and better that they use nuclear instead of coal or gas plants.

One option is to also mandatorily lock the powerplants to the municipal grid, and provide rebates to data center operators via net metering instead of simply giving them cash back.

But yes, the lax security and the laissez-faire don't give a shit attitude of the current admin far outweighs any of these benefits