# There are no free reactors in America

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-07-31
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:15 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-07-31-there-are-no-free-reactors-in-america-p7mv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "There are no free reactors in America," Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 31 Jul 2025, 00:07:15. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134

## Quote — verbatim

> The last nuclear reactor took about 14 years in the U.S.... We have about 96 reactors in America. They're fully utilized 93% of the time. The last remaining reactor was the Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania that was scooped up by Microsoft and a 20-year lease. So there are no free reactors in America.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Why nuclear can't rescue AI demand on any relevant timescale: "It doesn't matter if you want to build. You just can't build" [00:07:59]. (Whisper renders it "three-mile-long island.")