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The U.S. government is shelling out a whopping $2.7 billion to three companies in an effort to strengthen domestic uranium enrichment, amid surging electricity demand from AI data centers.

The Department of Energy announced on Monday that it will award $900 million each to American Centrifuge Operating and Orano Federal Services, as well as General Matter, a nuclear startup backed by billionaire investor Peter Thiel.

The funding will be distributed through task orders over the next 10 years, under what the department described as a “strict milestone approach.”

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[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Nazis are spending our money.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Eat the rich

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 111 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's a MUCH better us of MY Taxpayer Dollars then FEEDING STARVING AMERICAN CHILDREN!

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Don't forget funding things like CPB, too.

So glad we can enrich the weird end-times freak Peter Thiel. The fan of Curtis Yarvin and The Sovereign Individual.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

One step at a time. Maybe we stop using tax dollars to cause child starvation before we ease into preventing child starvation.

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Good news, we can do both!

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 18 points 1 week ago

... But we won't

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 76 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Free money for billionaires to make themselves more money. The GOP really is just a group of pedophiles.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The dems love billionaires as well.

We really need to get over our obsession with billionaires and stop letting them have so much influence.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago (10 children)

100% agreed. Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries and the DNC leadership are corporate and AIPAC removed.

Only the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and a couple of independents are actually on the side of the American public.

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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Well, when the electorate only gets our news from the media and aren't capable of researching candidates on our own, how else do you get elected?

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

These people got so much money it’s literally an existential threat to the rest of us

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

Evil never dies, goes bankrupt, or loses control.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I've got a lovely quid to sell you...

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cronyism. They always say "There's no money for that" when it comes to helping people who need it, but as soon as it comes to helping their rich friends or building monstrosities of vanity, suddenly they find the money for it.

At this point, ordinary income-earners in america should just stop paying taxes, because they'll never see that money come back to help them in anyway. It's all getting funneled directly to the rich, who also happen to be receiving enormous tax cuts.

It's stealing from the poor to give to the rich...

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Just call it what it is — capitalism.

[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

I'm sure you mean socialism, where the government picks the winners and losers? /s

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[–] graycube@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Don't worry, we will fork over 10x that in 20 years when we have to clean up all of the obsolete and abandoned data centers. There is no way any company is going to do that themselves.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought he made that kind of money as spare change on the lecture circuit when he tells people he knows about the anti-christ.

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Or when he tells them public education is a waste of time, and they should just “do what they’re good at” as if they inherently know what that is.

[–] Klairabelle@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Fallout looking more and more realistic by the day…

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago

Peter Thiel plans to kill us all and emerge from the ashes.

[–] kevin2107@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

FUCK PETER THEIL. His Cocksucking removed ass will be the end of us

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago (8 children)

The cock sucking part doesn’t seem relevant. Plenty of straight monsters out here.

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Hmmm, more corruption and destruction of the working class.

Billionaires should not exist. They serve ZERO purpose and only work to hurt us.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

This guy watched the Fallout show didn't he?

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fallout here we come. For one am not ready to die in Anchorage

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Fuck Peter Thiel in the ear. He and Stephe Miller are such vile pieces of shit.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Welcome back to the political spoils system

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