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Spreading your bets is considered sensible.

> why not pour even more $ in those then since if it's cheaper = you get more kw for the same $?

Law of diminishing marginal returns: you don’t. You either need to pay a premium for expedited delivery or eat the time value of delays.

"Everybody" doesn't say solar, wind, or batteries is cheaper than nuclear. The question of what is "cheaper" at any given time isn't really relevant at this scale -- its cheap.

Price and availability of electricity and power is more or less global, however datacenter customers are in the situation where they need to power a city with electricity in a location where there is neither an existing city nor its generation capactiy.