Do we think the Facebook AI slop machine should even have nuclear power plants?
Who trusts Mark Zuckerberg nuclear plants after all the harm this industry is responsible for so far?
Meta signs 3 deals for nuclear energy to power AI data centers January 9, 2026 / 1:27 PM EST / AP Meta will also buy more than 2.1 gigawatts of energy from two operating Vistra nuclear power plants in Ohio, in addition to the energy from expansions at the two Ohio plants and a third Vistra plant, Beaver Valley, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The deal with Oklo, which counts OpenAI’s Sam Altman as one of its largest investors, will help to develop a 1.2 gigawatt power campus in Pike County, Ohio, to support Meta’s data centers in the region.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman is one of the largest investors, except that OpenAI is not profitable, and not making money, in fact by the sounds of it, the company is pissing away money, and Ed Zitron has been pointing this out for years now.
This crazy chart shows just how much cash OpenAI is burning as it chases AI profits Provided by Dow Jones Dec 5, 2025, 3:39:00 PM By Joseph Adinolfi OpenAI expects to burn through more cash between 2024 and 2029 than Uber, Tesla, Amazon and Spotify did - combined - before those companies started making money, according to Deutsche Bank researchers. OpenAI’s latest valuation round pegged the company at roughly $500 billion, making it perhaps the most valuable startup in Silicon Valley and one of the most valuable privately held companies in the world. It also has been widely reported to be a cash-burning machine.
My letter to reps:
OpenAI’s Sam Altman is one of the largest investors connected to this Meta Vistra nuclear plant project in Beaver County Pennsylvania… except that OpenAI is not profitable, and not making money, in fact by the sounds of it, the company is pissing away money. Are Pennsylvania taxpayers going to be on the hook to bail out all these AI slop companies, the tycoons, and this nuclear plant operation, when all that “profit by inference” (speculation) doesn’t work out because it’s all built on a house of cards and circular reasoning? What are you going to do to protect ordinary people for when this all goes pear shaped? And why would we trust putting a nuclear reactor in the hands of people who would do business with companies with these kinds of balance sheets in the middle of a financial bubble? This seems like a very good indication they’re planning on cutting corners with a nuclear reactor where the heart of Pittsburgh is inside the nuclear meltdown ingestion zone 50 mile radius, along with Butler PA and Youngstown Ohio. We need to put the breaks on all these power plant data center plans until we can find out what the hell is really going on. We need a data center moratorium now.
Please feel free to copy or repurpose for your own letters to reps.
Map image from the PA DCNR PA State Parks, Forests and Geology Interactive Map with a measuring tool showing 25.79 miles from the Beaver Valley Power Station to downtown Pittsburgh, with Butler PA to the north, and Youngstown Ohio to the northwest.