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Baseload. Nuclear runs forever and you can put a datacenter right beside it to avoid grid complexities.

An added value is that in off-hours nuclear can be used to produce hydrogen for carbon free fuel.

Not arguing against you, but - as can wind and solar at times of excess generation.

Absolutely. However, an often made detraction of nuclear is that the baseload is superfluous during off hours, so hydrogen generation is worth mentioning.

Do data centers really have off-hours?

I was under the impression that whatever drop in consumer usage exists overnight is made up for with ML training, video transcoding, etc. That there's never any shortage of tasks to run.

these do have downtimes for maintenance when load is shifted to others

Nuclear only runs about 95% of the time. You still need to deal with grid complexities.

1.3 nines of reliability? Awesome.

Do you have a source for that, how wide is the variation for different reactor types and operators, does it apply to individual reactors or whole sites when there are several reactors on one site?

The PRIS database has country averaged data for energy availability factor, capacity factor etc.

https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/ThreeYrsEnergyAva...

I have to say: That looks as if they all value safety over uptime.

Thanks.

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